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โœธ change my actions, โœธ

Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 08:14:49 AM

and my thoughts will follow. yes the reading does suggest that if i act sane, i may actually become more sane, or at least something similar to that notion. not really, but some days that particular notion slides into if i “behave” as if i was a “normal” person, i will become one. the next piece of that then becomes, if i become a “normal” then i will use like i am one and will no longer need the program of recovery, that has brought me to this place in my life. i6t is amazing that even with a few days clean, i can spot the loopholes in some of the basic premises that i accepted way back when. well maybe not all that surprising, as i have seen all sorts of people, addicts and possible addicts, float in and out of the rooms, across the course of my recovery. even a bit more disconcerting, is that as i move further away from the last time i used, these sort of notions occur with greater regularity. the part of me i call addiction sees the result of the chain of my daily reprieves from active addiction as a destination and not a journey and begins to weigh the possibilities that maybe i am not really an addict. great work when i can get it 😜!
what comes to mind when i hear such nonsense, is that the reason i can act like a “normal” person, is BECAUSE i live a program. i am quite certain that those who are not addicts, do not consider what it is like to use like a “normal” person. i could be wrong, but the consequences of trying to disprove my theory are ones that i do not wish to face today. life for this addict, really is better on two legs.
moving specifically to the reading topic of behaving my way to better thinking, i have observed that when i make an effort to behave better, such as learning to take other people's feelings and ideas intro consideration, i start to think in a less selfish and self-obsessed manner. the same event occurs when i act less impulsively or <GASP> needy. when i accept responsibility for who i am and what i do, i develop the sense of self-esteem that i so sorely lacked way back when. the process is even more enhanced when i stop making excuses, generating rationalizations or falling into the trap of ̶i am only a human and an addict to boot!” while all of that is true, i do not need to make it my default go-to excuse. when i stumble, i own it and resolve to avoid that trap next time. i do not act as-if i meant to do that or blow it off.
i live in the real world today and as one of my favorite groups has said: “it's more fun when you don't give a fVck!” well i give one, but it is not so much about how i look, rather how i feel; and today, i feel good.
it is after all a great day to be alive and kicking and to be clean.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

2) There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He
who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it
may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
is it that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!