Day 465

Good morning!  My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict.  I love when I meet someone new and the first thing I hear them say makes me smile and say, "Me too!"  To have someone know what you have been through or to have been through it themselves or are currently going through it puts a relationship on a totally different level.  Other people have no idea how to comprehend some things you go through.  Only other cancer patients can empathize with other cancer patients.  Now I can sympathize with a cancer patient, but I can empathize with an addict/alcoholic.  Friendships are born off of people's experiences.  I might have more alcoholic/addict friends (hopefully in active recovery) than you.  I have a wide variety of friends.  Some from church, from AA, from work, from who knows where.  But we all have something in common.  We all have something we have something we have been though together, something we agree on, something we both like, something we both though was funny, something that originally got us together.  That's all I got for today.  Have a great one!