The Quiet High of Helping Others Anonymously
Thereâs a special kind of rush that nothing in my using days ever touched: doing something for another person in recovery when they donât expect it at all. - Slipping a $20 gas card into a jacket pocket - DMing a guy at 2 a.m. who posted âI donât think I can do thisâ with nothing more than âYou already are. Iâm up if you need me.â - Dropping groceries on a single momâs porch whoâs white-knuckling her first week, no note, just gone before she opens the door. No applause, no credit, no âlook at Massimo the saint.â Just the act. Every single time I do it, something inside me levels up. I don't have cravings any longer yet my problems shrink, and my sobriety feels even more bulletproof. Itâs like topping off my own tank by giving someone else gas. Science calls it âhelperâs high.â I call it free, renewable rocket fuel for long-term recovery. The Stoics called it living according to Justice and human connection. Whatever the label, it works. You donât need money or grand gestures. A ride to someone without a car, a âyouâve got thisâ voice memo, paying for the coffee of the person behind you in line who looks like theyâre on day three; tiny, anonymous, pure. Try one this week. No announcement, no tag, no story. Just do it and feel what happens on the inside when nobodyâs watching. Then come back and tell us (without naming names) how it felt. I guarantee your sobriety will feel a little taller. Whoâs in for one random act of SOBER Method kindness this week?