"This is your Wake-up call"...

I may regret this post, but if so, it won't be the first.

Many years ago, I was leaving a bar after way too many drinks, which wasn't unusual at that time in my life. As I was about to open my car door, I saw something shiny on the pavement. I picked it up and found that It was a working compass. I don't know how it got there, but I felt a powerful message from it: "Where are you going?"

Unfortunately, that experience alone did not change my drinking, but it sticks out as the first sign that my life should be going in a different direction.

I saved that compass for many years. Just a couple of months ago, I went looking for it and couldn't find it. Maybe that's because it was only meant to be there when I needed it most.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I may regret this post, but if so, it won't be the first.

Many years ago, I was leaving a bar after way too many drinks, which wasn't unusual at that time in my life. As I was about to open my car door, I saw something shiny on the pavement. I picked it up and found that It was a working compass. I don't know how it got there, but I felt a powerful message from it: "Where are you going?"

Unfortunately, that experience alone did not change my drinking, but it sticks out as the first sign that my life should be going in a different direction.

I saved that compass for many years. Just a couple of months ago, I went looking for it and couldn't find it. Maybe that's because it was only meant to be there when I needed it most.
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Thanks for sharing that @MACKTEXAS . Very interesting to think about.☺️
 

Plenty of wake up calls I slept right thru unfortunately.

I started to type out the entire story but it's typical stupid drunk behavior, so here's the ending.

Walking into the local police station with my hands cuffed behind my back the desk Sargent looks up and says "hey C50, haven't seen you in long enough that you grew a beard, it looks good". He knew me well enough it's like we were buddies, at that moment my entire life was laid out in front of me, simply a ditto of my family. At that moment I decided to change my life, never drank alcohol again, I was 22 years old. Best decision I ever made.
 
When it came to binge drinking, I hit the snooze button many many times.

When I stopped working smoking and drinking just slowly faded away and I’m more than ok with that.

In other areas of my life there haven’t really been wake-up calls as much as recognizing that it was time to turn the page and start a new chapter.

Lately, I’ve been feeling like I may be running out of ink. 😉🤔😂
 
Yes, cannot forget the day I was in a rehab meeting and the
lady instructor said something along the lines "you are made
in his image" @@@@ That was it, I had an emotional pysco
upheaval like you would not believe....43 yrs ago on july 9. my birthday, instead it was my re=birth day...thank God!!!
 
I didn't get that this was about some epiphany in a person's life, especially in reference to alcohol. I was thinking more of a drill sergeant banging a trash can at o'dark hundred... I guess I just don't get nuances of common phrases.
 
Probably have had more than one, but 12/12/22 to this day is the most powerful.
I had tried 8 times in my life to stop smoking,and it never worked. On the morning of 12/12/22- I was retired , hubby at work and about to shower. I am in the shower about to to turn the water- and gasp I could not breathe - gasping for breath I terrified of dying in the shower an - oh Lord please no not here. I managed to get out, and crawl to the phone, called my daughter- who happened to live in same complex, but phone always goes to voice mail.
She answers and all I could say was 911 or ER...she was on her way.
A team of doctors worked on me seemed like forever. By this time I was clawing at myself and could not be still.
My BP was so high the IV kept popping out, and created a mess. They taped it down, and put a Cather in and removed 4 cups of fluid from my lungs. Whew, anyways once stable they took me to a room. Doctor told my daughter she saved my life, as I would have never made it waiting for an ambulance. CHF, injured right kidney, a few other things.
Sorry this is so long, but this is still an emotional thing for me to take about. I have not smoked since and never will, I laughing talk about it, but have never even been tempted. The smell makes me so nauseous -unbelievable for me.
So this was my wake up call and so glad, I have heeded the call.:)
 
I believe the second wake up call in my life was when I finally accepted that I was married to a lying cheating tramp and it would never change. I had spent years thinking I could hold our family together no matter the cost, then finally got some dignity and drew a line at our front door and told her she forfeited her right to enter.

It was like flipping a switch, one day life was a pit of drama and despair and the next day the sun came out, for me and the kids both.
 
Babs2u said:
The first time I ever had an alcoholic beverage I was 16. Oh, so this is what it feels like to be normal and unafraid. I could breathe. I have had to be careful ever since sometimes more successfully than others.
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Maybe I was only 14. It was long ago.
 
Starting in 1990 and continuing to 1994.
We had to move three times due to the military bases I was stationed at, closed.
Moved from the UK to California in time for 2 earthquakes, Riots and another Base closure.

I wanted to stay in the military but figured these were a wake-up call and time to move on and out.
 
My wake up call was a few days ago. I trimmed my pecan tree so I could see my bird feeder. Then a few minutes later a large limb fell right there where I had the trimmed limbs. Then the next day A HUGE limb hit the house like an explosion that scared the hell out me and the kids. Even my neighbor heard it. It put a dent in the gable of my roof but didn't breach it,

I decided the damned tree was warning me. And top that off I canceled my home owners because it was so high now. If you know me I do not believe in super natural things but I recently read a few things about trees that makes me think there is more to them than bark and leaves. One thing I read was negative and positive ions and how trees can remove them from a human.

I soon went out and put my hands on the tree and apologized. And did not feel stupid. SO last night we had a REAL storm and nothing fell off. Im worried about this hurricane season though. I love this old pecan tree for the shade and the good pecans I get every few years....
 
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