Dear @stockjockey,

This is the first post I have seen of yours and we don't know each other yet as I am newish around here(started blogging on steem a few weeks ago). But your post and your words touched me and my heart goes out to you. I too am a RDA who has been sober for 7 years(cocaine and IV H..) and just wanted to commend you and give you some proper respect on your amazing 30 year sobriety achievement. Being new here I am still catching up on the political situation and history around here, but just from understanding people and the ways alot humans are corrupted by power I can pretty much come to an understanding of what has been going on, and just wanted to say I am glad the community has people like you in it who can stand up and say fuck you to people like that whose sole purpose in life is motivated by greed and bringing others down. It may not mean much coming from a steem newb(doing my best to get better and keep learning everyday though!) but THANK YOU for making posts like this. I will support you 100%, your post was bold which I loved, but what I found even more compelling in your words was how you also showed a great amount of humility the way you talk about your past self and the things you realized you had to change to survive, people(including myself) can truly learn from such wisdom. I just wanted to tell you that. Also I just started on steem monsters too a few days ago it is very cool, I such and have crap cards but am trying to learn the ropes and think it is a great Dapp(I have mostly played EOS/Eth dapps prior to this)! Was kinda bummed that I missed out on beta packs but at least I got here in time for the upcoming untamed so trying looking to the bright side, hope there is still a little opportunity in the game for a newcomer! But yeah thank you for being so open and sharing some of your story, it was truly inspiring <3 . I know you said you won't be posting for awhile but I am still going to follow you for when you start up again =) Looking forward to it! Fuck the haters.