I have been clean for:
I Stand With Ukraine

Welcome

Journal

Some memes

Feel Free to steal and repost these memes!

Surrender meme Work the steps meme

โ†” finding out who i want to be today โ†”

Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 07:06:30 AM

well this is an interesting reading coming at this time in my life. after spending the past month changing just about every fucking thing in my life, i am once again supposed to be writing a fourth step inventory. and truthfully i am more than a bit confused about who i am, much less who the man i am in the process of becoming will be.
so here i sit pondering the vagaries of the metaphysical hall of terrors, wondering if the work i have accumulated over the past two weeks is a fluke or something i can rely on. wondering whether i can really make a life together with my girl friend. wondering when the fuck i am going to find the time to finish the projects that i am doing to be of service to the fellowship that has given me this new life. and actually wondering if all of this change is really worth it.
a bit confused and confusing n'est-ce pas?
so then comes this little ditty and smacks me right upside my head. -- if i want to sort through the confusion of my life, i need to look at who i have been through a thorough and searching moral inventory. DAMMIT that is exactly what carlos would tell me, the rat bastard addicts who wrote this must have called him and slipped this in under the radar, just for me, right here and right now. after all, it really is all about me!
so what am i to do? well for one i can blow the dust of the step working guide, decide which pen i am going to use and proceed with my step writing assignment. in fact, i can work that into the my new work day structure i am in the process of developing. and i can continue on working on getting my days and weeks set-up so i can enjoy being my own boss. life is after all nothing but changing from one state to another -- this transition is just another phase of that change and if i want a map to where it is going, the time to sort out where i have been is now. so off to the showers and another day at the races.

∞ DT ∞


Another Look

This day in older entries

๐Ÿ– before recovery, &#128401
371 words ➥ Monday, March 16, 2026 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜‰ it is hard, ๐Ÿ˜‰
479 words ➥ Sunday, March 16, 2025 by donnot
๐Ÿ™ป letting go of some ๐Ÿ™ป
334 words ➥ Saturday, March 16, 2024 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜ก accepting that ๐Ÿ˜ถ
553 words ➥ Thursday, March 16, 2023 by donnot
๐Ÿค finding out who ๐Ÿค”
445 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2022 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜ต shame and despair ๐Ÿ˜•
524 words ➥ Tuesday, March 16, 2021 by donnot
๐Ÿค’ a confused ๐Ÿค”
523 words ➥ Monday, March 16, 2020 by donnot
๐Ÿ’€ becoming who ๐Ÿ’Ž
545 words ➥ Saturday, March 16, 2019 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜‡ on being ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
544 words ➥ Friday, March 16, 2018 by donnot
โœŽ looking at who โœ
792 words ➥ Thursday, March 16, 2017 by donnot
โœŽ inventory โœ
671 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2016 by donnot
ยพ as a using addict, ยพ
600 words ➥ Monday, March 16, 2015 by donnot
โ€ข noticing how i feel about my behaviors โ€ข
539 words ➥ Sunday, March 16, 2014 by donnot
โ‰  from time to time, i identify my personality closely โ‰ 
439 words ➥ Saturday, March 16, 2013 by donnot
ยน if i want to find out who i am ;
602 words ➥ Friday, March 16, 2012 by donnot
ฮ” as a using addict, i was a confused and confusing person ฮ”
657 words ➥ Tuesday, March 16, 2010 by donnot
โˆž who am i today? โˆž
311 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2005 by donnot

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

4) Therefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not
parade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value
on, himself. And thus he puts the latter alternative away and makes
choice of the former.