Four things right now at four years sober
There's a Mark Twain quote that goes The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. I've never liked this quote because the truth is that for some people, the day they find out why they are born can also feel like the day they are actually born. For some people, and by some people I mean me, there's only one important day, one real birth. Which is really just a convoluted way of saying I was born on this day in history, and today I turn four.
To commemorate it, I wrote a post about four things I'm thinking about.
Four Things Right Now
1. Cyclical Bitch
I got in a fight with Laura last week, or, more aptly put, we had an intense discussion. She said the thing I hate the most to hear from anyone ever, which is that I'm a hard person to be friends with because she never knows which version of me she's going to get. The second she said it I felt the shame rise up in my throat, the resistance to that statement in every …