Bucky Sinister Quotes

• We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

  Bucky Sinister

  Fall, People, Pits

  Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.39, Conari Press

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• Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

  Bucky Sinister

  Inspirational, Recovery, Sobriety

  Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.168, Conari Press

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• Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.

  Bucky Sinister

  Crazy, Real, Fall

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

  Bucky Sinister

  Believe, Needs, Sober

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.

  Bucky Sinister

  Wall, Feel Better, Emotional

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.

  Bucky Sinister

  School, Thinking, Sick

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church." I knew it wasn't right for me before I ever tried it. I was suspicious of anything outside my realm of experience. That same kind of attitude carries over into 12-step programs, because they are programs. There's this feeling that you don't need this bullshit, you can quit on your own. People that don't know anything about it seem to have a better idea. They haven't even been.

  Bucky Sinister

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

  Bucky Sinister

  Home, Broken, Childhood

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

  Bucky Sinister

  Christian, Mean, Recovery

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Ser capaz de interpretar la tragedia en clave de humor y no de lástima es un nuevo truco que he aprendido. Durante mucho tiempo eso es lo que hice con mi poesía, pedir a la gente que sintiera lástima por mí. Me volví sobrio y me di cuenta de que tengo que dejar de lado el tema de la lástima; no va a ninguna parte para mí. No quiero tener autocompasión.

  Bucky Sinister

  Sorry, Play, Self

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this book a year before I even went to a meeting because I was already miserable. I didn't enjoy drinking anymore, I just couldn't stand the idea of not doing it. I was afraid if I got sober I wouldn't be able to write anymore. That was a really big fear of mine, which turned out not to be true.

  Bucky Sinister

  Book, Drinking, Writing

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

  Bucky Sinister

  Sinister, Ideals

  Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.56, Conari Press

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• Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
  A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

  Bucky Sinister

  Elephants, Differences, Peanut Butter

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• Maximum Rocknroll
  didn't have a map section.
  How was I supposed to know
  that Berkeley was not
  a neighborhood of San Francisco?

  Bucky Sinister

  San Francisco, Maps, Neighborhood

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