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Filobeddoe:
Ok... here goes! It will probably be a short list for me, but there are some positive things I got out of "my" Seed experience.

IMPORTANT LESSONS:
1) Serenity Prayer- Very important lesson while in The Seed and to this day for me to deal with problems that come up.
2) Change your ATTITUDE- The Seed taught me that it is up to me to "change my attitude" if it is bad. Yes, this is pretty obvious... but it is something I think about almost daily whenever I have a lousy attitude I stop & think about it & know that I can change it if I want.
3) Self Esteem- Was told that I was "better" than all those druggies out there. It was something I needed to "say no" to my peers. It gradually helped me realize that I was capable of making my own decisions without getting approval from my peers. (there of course were many negatives about alienating 90% of population.. BUT eventually helped)
4) Counselling friends & relatives about drug abuse/effects of peer pressure etc. Having been in a "drug rehab" program... I have a unique perspective.

FOND MEMORIES:
1) Many friends made with seed oldcomers & graduates. They replaced my old druggie friends for a few years while I grew up. Looking back, alot of the stuff we did was "druggie-like" like listening to rock music (real loud), dating Seed & non-Seed girls, dancing, hunting, water skiing, riding dirt bikes, etc.
2) Driving back home from a weekend Seed meeting & getting my mom's Chevy 4 door up to 100+mph while listening to Boston's album on my power amped out (300 decibels?) stereo with other Seedlings. (Hey, I was 17 & it was fun)
3) My oldcomers & their families where sincerely interested in my progress & were neat people.

Well, that's about it. Not a long list but I can say some good things about my experience.

What are some of your fond memories or lessons from The Seed?

Filobeddoe[ This Message was edited by: Filobeddoe on 2004-09-25 21:32 ]

rjfro22:
the seed got me a job with other seedlings and i learned to work hard show up in time  something I could never do prior ,and actually save money for a car. I shared apartments with several seedlings and we had a ball, and yes we listened rock and roll and
I even let my hair grow back and ocasionally some one would make a comment about my hair, but they didn't  try to force me to cut it,  at this point I was an oldtimer.  I also made very close friends with a family that I lived with and they were very supportive, we are still friends to this day. I traveled the country in a pinto with a female seedling friend and that was a great experience, we even fought occasionally, but we never had to use over it. Art asked me to stay on as a staff member and even offered to help me get to art school, I just was not ready at the time and said no.  It took me 11 years later to get to art school on my own, oh well, I wasn't ready.  coulder woulder shoulder.  The seed knew me better then I even realized, even when you think no one knew you, they seemed to know what you needed.   Art is a great man and may he remain well.

Tony Stark:
We could sing really well together in St. Pete. :smokin:
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
-- Emo Phillips

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rjfro22:
I know singing those sappy songs were ridiculous, I basically just moved my mouth.
That one took a while for me to get use to.
It certainly was a way to break the big ego.
The road to recovery....

GregFL:
Recovery from what?  99% of seedlings had no drug addiction. Recovery is a drug addiction term.

The only road we were on was the road to coersive cultic mind control.

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