Sorry for the Lack of Posts!
Hello readers. Sorry I haven’t written in a while. I just got a new semi-full time job and it’s been keeping my busy. But the good thing is — I’m always up and about at this job so maybe I’ll actually be getting that exercising in!
The bummer about this job is I couldn’t start that OA meeting I wanted to. My schedule changes every week and I have to work weekends. So I’ll never know how many meetings I can catch either. But my sponsor reminded me there is always a phone or online meeting going on that I could attend.
I had a falling out with a in-person sponsee. Because of my job, I had to let her go. I called her and left her a message stating that I wouldn’t be able to be as present as a sponsor should be and that I was very sorry. I suppose I shouldn’t have left it in a message, but I did. About three weeks later she went up to me in a meeting and said the abruptness of letting her go was rude and that I should have waited until she found another sponsor. But wouldn’t that be compromising my recovery? I can’t “hold on” until she finds a new sponsor because I can’t just put off my job. I try to be as helpful as possible to my sponsees, but I have to think of my recovery as well. I asked my sponsor if I should have made any additional amends but she told me she couldn’t see a harm in what I had done. I still feel bad about it, but what’s done is done and I can only learn from the past.
I asked my sponsor if I should still mark “sponsor” on the list even though I couldn’t take anymore. She told me yes because I still am a sponsor. If a teacher goes on vacation, he’s still a teacher.
Hope you all are doing well!
