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

๐Ÿš fixing me ๐Ÿ—

Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2021 07:05:10 AM

the explosion of the lie that i was broken has set off quite a chain reaction of feelings and desires. add to that whole mess, the fact my Dad is going to die at his home and now requires someone to be there twenty-four/seven, does not make it any easier. mix in having to deal with all the details, because the person i had the biggest resentment towards will now be the person i spend the next few days with, for hours on end, and i see a HUGE recipe for disaster. these next few weeks are going to be tough ones on me and my family and having to deal with my witch's brew of emotions, desires and redefining who i am, will not make things any easier.
i really do not like being so dark and gloomy any more, and yet here i find myself skipping down that path. i know that it was my Dad's illness that gave me the kick in a my ass to get that FOURTH STEP done. i also know that what was revealed, resentments and all, was poison that needed to be released from my system. knowing that and feeling the repercussions for that does not make things any easier today. i also know that the damage caused to myself, by believing the lies i told myself, is not the fault of anyone else, there really are no victims here, i volunteered for all those years of misery, denial and pain. it is also true that lie was set-up by something that was done to me, and i CHOSE to be a victim of that event, for just long enough to get to this point in my life. this morning, i will do the needful, get out and work off some stress and take a minute to consider who is important: myself and my Dad. more will certainly be revealed and i am open to see what i need to see, JUST FOR TODAY.

∞ DT ∞


Another Look

This day in older entries

๐Ÿคท je ne sais quoi ๐Ÿคท
422 words ➥ Wednesday, April 1, 2026 by donnot
๐Ÿค— a wordless language ๐Ÿค—
396 words ➥ Tuesday, April 1, 2025 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜ฅ a very sad ๐Ÿ˜ข
518 words ➥ Monday, April 1, 2024 by donnot
๐ŸŒŒ that energy ๐ŸŒŒ
528 words ➥ Saturday, April 1, 2023 by donnot
๐Ÿฅด finding relief ๐Ÿคจ
524 words ➥ Friday, April 1, 2022 by donnot
๐Ÿ›‘ impossible demands ๐Ÿ›‘
587 words ➥ Wednesday, April 1, 2020 by donnot
๐Ÿ healthy ๐Ÿ
390 words ➥ Monday, April 1, 2019 by donnot
๐Ÿฉ seeking the **WHATEVER** ๐Ÿฉ
581 words ➥ Sunday, April 1, 2018 by donnot
๐Ÿ’˜ too needy ๐Ÿ’”
570 words ➥ Saturday, April 1, 2017 by donnot
๐Ÿ’˜ love and addiction ๐Ÿ’•
604 words ➥ Friday, April 1, 2016 by donnot
โ™ฅ just as i sought the drug that would โ™ฅ
635 words ➥ Wednesday, April 1, 2015 by donnot
โ™ฅ by applying the program to all my affairs, โ™ฅ
436 words ➥ Monday, April 1, 2013 by donnot
โˆš Loving relationships are within my reach โˆš
546 words ➥ Sunday, April 1, 2012 by donnot
ฮด if i still expect people to fix me ฮด
441 words ➥ Sunday, April 1, 2007 by donnot
โˆž my realtionships -- my recovery! โˆž
302 words ➥ Friday, April 1, 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 1

1) If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect
this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed. The kingdom
is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing. He who
would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses
it.