Fun!
“In recovery, our ideas of fun change.”
Basic Text, p.102
In retrospect, many of us realize that when we used, our ideas of fun were rather
bizarre. Some of us would get dressed up and head for the local club. We would
dance, drink and do other drugs until the sun rose. On more than one occasion, gun
battles broke out. What we then called fun, we now call insanity.
Today, our notion of fun has changed. Fun to us today is a walk along the ocean,
watching the dolphins frolic as the sunsets behind them. Fun is going to an NA
picnic, or attending the comedy show at an NA convention. Fun is getting dressed up
to go to the banquet and not worrying about any gun battles breaking out over who
did what to whom.
Through the grace of a Higher Power and the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous,
our ideas of fun have changed radically. Today when we are up to see the sun rise,
it’s usually because we went to bed early the night before, not because we left a club
at six in the morning, eyes bleary from a night of drug use. And if that’s all we have
received from Narcotics Anonymous, that would be enough.
Just for today: I will have fun in my recovery!