From the desk of JosephDiego Lopez/Diamante.

Hello, My name is Joe Lopez, and I’m Grateful Recovered Alcoholic.

Wow, I never thought I’d ever be saying those words as much as I do, today. I say this at least 4 times a week. I am so proud and honored to be an alcoholic / addict. Most people are ashamed, but not me and the hundreds of thousands of people that I surround myself with today. Even though we call ourselves alcoholic & addicts we are all winners. We all live a life, beyond our wildest dreams. So if you feel that you might have a problem with either drugs or alcohol, Please continue to read on. This may be the most important thing you have done in quit some while.

Night and day, black and white, sober or drunk? The bottom line is Blessedness or Wretchedness. You can decide to live life alive of be a zombie and walk dead. How can I say this? I was dead, my life was nothing. Ho yeah, I thought I was something are somebody special but the only person who thought that was me. I can’t believe that I lived like that for so long. Yet, I did. For close to 20 years of my life, so many people were telling me that I might have a problem. I had so many people offer to help; I would tell them that they didn’t know what they were talking about. The addiction made me so blind and closed minded.

Now, I have opened my eyes and my mind. They say “the mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open” That is so true. So today I open my mind, ears, eyes and I shut my mouth. I listen to and seek those who know more than I do. I surround myself with only positive thinking people and I have managed to be able to get away from the people that aren’t. That’s just the way it is. I have changed my thinking therefore I have changed my world.

Mostly I am absolutely thrilled to be me. I have started all over again. This time around life is magnificent. Everyday seems to get better and better. My wife, kids and everything is just great.

The world didn’t change, I changed. I live with passion and purpose; I focus on the beauty of life and I find it. I have recovered the most valuable thing in my life and I didn’t even know it was I had. That thing is me. I am grateful to be alive.

What a beautiful world it is. Go for it, you have to be in it to win it. It all begins with that 1^st step. Take it you won’t be sorry. I’m not. Today I am a Sober, Happy, Healthy, Loving, Prosperous, Intelligent, And Energetic child of this universe and brother to all.

Peace, Love, Health, Happiness and Massive Success to all. JosephDiego Diamante