One of the things, which happened today, was how I was able to start this way of thinking about this program and staying sober a day at a time. And that was back when computers were very new to individuals. I remember my walking into a sober friend’s house one day and there was this computer sitting on his desk.
I was puzzled at what this was, but he walked up and pointed out that it was something I could use, which would help me. He said he had to leave and would be back, but if I wanted to type something to just go ahead. And he was gone right after that.
I remember that I sat down and started to type a thought about this program. When I finished I didn’t know what to do about what I had written. So finally I hit a key and the thing I had written vanished. I was grateful and went home.
A while later at home my phone rang, and the person on it said they had received what I had written and they wanted me to continue to do this. I almost fell over. And I went back to my friend and asked him how this happened. He said he had planned to write this person, but forgot and left, after he had talked to me. But he explained that this was how the computer worked. You could send letters to others by wireless computers. I discovered what I had written was addressed to this person. I just didn’t see it.
I began learning to write to this person fairly frequently. Then a friend of this person said that they were shown what I was writing and wanted me to also write to them. And that led me into writing a group of individuals in this program, who also were shown what I had written and wanted the same thing. And on it went, until I found myself loaded down with a lot of individuals in this program.
That’s when a computer expert friend of mine, and a few others, who were receiving what I wrote came to me and told me that I had to stop sending out all these individual letters. They told me that I could go on a network and open up what I wrote to others.
It meant I could settle down and write an individual thought and just send it to my computer friend of mine, who would put it on the network for me.
Finally I did. And I still do. Maybe not always each and everyday, but very often. I discovered through my computer friend that now this was being received all over. Not just here, but other places around the world. It never bothers me, because I’m just helping myself to think and do what I am thinking. I never know what others are thinking and that’s just fine as far as I am concerned.
It’s not my business.
For a lot of years I did write daily. Probably ten or more. I think the last few years I have slowed down. But I still write. Often I will stop and think about all of this and am never able to think I’m doing all that well. But I have still been encouraged by old and new friends I know, who seem to like what I do. All I can do is think that time will tell. And that’s it.