Sunday, August 03, 2025

Time Flies

I just realized that in two months, I’ll be celebrating FIVE YEARS SOBER from heroin and cocaine. No relapses. No shortcuts. Just resilience, self-respect, and a refusal to die before I lived.

People love to talk about rock bottom which I never said I had, mine was more like an abyss a never ending bottom, but people talk about it like it’s a death sentence. I used it as a launchpad. Now I walk past the ghosts that used to own me and smile because they no longer recognize the man I have become.

Now don't get me wrong it hasn't been easy and there have been a lot of situations where relapsing crossed my mind especially recently but I've come too far to start over. 

This isn’t luck. This isn’t chance. This is warrior work. And I earned every scar and every second of this life I’m building. So yeah, I say it with my chest I’m not just surviving. I’m thriving. And I am doing it CLEAN.

#FiveYearsStrong
#SoberNotSorry
#BuiltDifferent
#Durviving

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