What have you done today to make you feel proud? It's never too late to try

What an amazing day for me today, 6 months and one day ago I was all cracked out in my garbage infested apartment, having been locked in there for 2 weeks with only 4 hours of sleep total, and I have to thank my family for helping to get the old me back. You see when I was all cracked out, I had definitely lost my true self, I didn't remember half the lyrics to some of my favorite pop and Broadway songs, I couldn't care about season finales of shows, THATS how I knew that I was so far gone! But thanks to my mother calling my sister, and then her and her husband showing up at my door telling me they loved me and wanted me to just get better, that was my moment of clarity, my A-HA moment as Oprah would say, where I knew that it all had to come to an end. Cut to 6 months later, I am three months into hair school, I have TONS of friends who I love, and who love me. I've unfortunately had to see some of them go back out there, but I no longer revolve around their lives and all I can do is pray for them, and love them, and not try and rescue them anymore; at least not to the point where I am jeopardizing my sobriety.

I picked an amazing sponsor because of what he has, and not because I thought he was hot. I am totally being of service, I have started a CMA meeting that is a success, I have trained, and will soon start volunteer work for the CMA Help Line.

I have also found a greater connection with my higher power, in a totally new level. But most importantly I have become my true self, I am an improved version of the old Gerson. I have the same spirit, sense of humor, charisma but now I am equipped with this amazing sense of self esteem, I am proud of who I am, I am proud of where I've come and I know where I am going. Today is a great day for me, I could not feel any happier, and I wanna thank all those people in my life who are there for me when I need them.

And since I've already shared the video for the original version I will give props to the version that introduced me to this post's title...the final scene of Queer as Folk, one of my favorite shows, and yet another example of my Mary (Brian)/Rhoda (Michael) reference.