Members Moments - What TM has done for me

Hello everyone. My name is Ian.
I joined TM about 3 years ago. I joined because my friends were all joining. I knew it might
be a bad idea, but I wanted to be cool like them.
My first speech was a rush that I’ll never forget. It was my cc1. To top it I won the best
speaker of the evening. I was on a high for days after that.
Initially one speech a month was enough. But I just had to have that speech. If I was left off
the prgram I was grumpy for days. I wouldn’t come out my room. I wouldn’t speak to
anyone.
But soon it wasn’t enough. I needed two speeches a month. I needed to speak at every
meeting. But it gets worse. I joined the committee. That gave me an aditional rush of power
which I also began to crave. I knew there was no going back now. Nothing matteredt in life
except the next TM meeting. I just lived from one Wednesday to the next. Its almost as
though I only really lived on Wed nights.
At work, things went from bad to worse. I spent all the time making agendas using the
photocopy mavhine. Emailing fellow membersx. And worst of all, assembling ad-hoc groups
of people and speaking to them for hours on end. Of course they had to let me go.
At home, it was just as bad. I would assemble tge dog and the cat and the goldish in a room,
lock the door and speak to them. The dog went crazy and ran away from home. The cat left
me for the neighbour. And I’m so adhamed to say, the goldfish jumped from his bowl and
committed suicide.
That was the final straw. I knew I needed help. That’s why I joined TM Anonymous. I hope I
can somehoe be rehabilitated.
And I mostly hope that none of ypu have to go through the hell that I did. I hope all of you
are wise enough to get out of iot while you still can.