Might as well draw a halo above it at this point <| sep |> Wow , where do I even begin ? Oh , of course , my sobriety , for without it , I have nothing . Everything emanates from my sobriety . That is why I make it # 1 in my life over everything else . How do I make it # 1 ? Do I spend more time doing meetings and online recovery than anything else ? No , not even close . I make it # 1 by practicing these principles in all my affairs that ' s the last part of Step 12 . Sobriety isn ' t my life , but rather my way of life . I ' m grateful for family and friends , IRL and here . It ' s kind of cool that I have these friends from all over the country and even the world that I have never met or have even seen what they look like and I may never meet most of them , yet they are real friends . I ' m also grateful for the little things . For example , I ' m grateful for all the things that are letting me type this right now my laptop , the couch I ' m sitting on , the room it is in , the light letting me see , the electricity powering the light and the computer , the cold can of LaCroix sitting on the table next to my computer , the macadamia nuts sitting in a bag on the table , the bed I ' ll go upstairs to sleep in next to my wonderful wife after I fall asleep as I surf the internet I just read all about dragsters , their history , what they are based onthe Chrysler hemi engine , what fuel they burnI no longer have to haul out a book from the encyclopedia set ! , the extra pair of reading glasses that get scratched when I doze off and I face plant on the keyboardlol . I ' m not only a grateful recovering alcoholic , but I ' m actually grateful to be a recovering alcoholic , as I believe the hell I went through to get sober forced a positive change I never would have otherwise made . This change I believe has placed me further along in life than I would have been if I was never an alcoholic to begin with . I almost can ' t believe I just wrote that as there were long stretches of bad times in my life when I was certain that even the idea of such a statement would have seemed completely ludicrous and laughable to me .