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Thu, Feb 3, 2022 08:21:30 AM
🌊 different circumstances 🌊
posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2022 08:21:30 AM
seems to be the theme of my life, especially after the last time i wrote about this topic. it has been quite a trip around the old Sol: i buried my Dad, took and lost a job, spent the last four weeks unemployed, took a trip to Greece and reached a point in my recovery journey, where step work seems to be temporarily complete. if not for my peers in recovery and their various paths to where they are in their recovery, i doubt i would have found the ways and means to stay clean and stay relatively sane.
moving into this morning, as i sat, i really heard absolutely nothing. when i got up to do breakfast, i was preternaturally calm, at least for me. i guess i have crossed a barrier in my desire to find a new work gig and am comfortable in my skin, for right now anyhow. it is far too frigid to get out in the 'hood for a workout and i am running behind the schedule i set for myself this morning and yet, i am not overly concerned about it. the interview i had yesterday felt “good” although i am not sure what that could possibly mean. i enjoyed speaking to them. i answered and asked the questions that seemed to arise from the conversation and wqhen all was said and done, i had a positive impression of my chances of getting hired on there. i have another interview tomorrow and when i do my nerding harder today, i may be opening a new page, just to get a different perspective, as one never knows what the next few days will bring.
it is off to the Rec Center for some laps around the track. i am willing to bet, that i get at least three recruiter calls during my workout. i may actually take them, as just for today, i am in the mood and the mode to be kind to them as they do the best they can, with what they have and have to do. life is certainly happening for me, and i am quite sure that i can stay clean, until i lay my head on the i]pillow tonight, thanks to different circumstances of those with whom i share my recovery.
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Congrats, Aaron F.
FOURTEEN (14) years clean!
moving into this morning, as i sat, i really heard absolutely nothing. when i got up to do breakfast, i was preternaturally calm, at least for me. i guess i have crossed a barrier in my desire to find a new work gig and am comfortable in my skin, for right now anyhow. it is far too frigid to get out in the 'hood for a workout and i am running behind the schedule i set for myself this morning and yet, i am not overly concerned about it. the interview i had yesterday felt “good” although i am not sure what that could possibly mean. i enjoyed speaking to them. i answered and asked the questions that seemed to arise from the conversation and wqhen all was said and done, i had a positive impression of my chances of getting hired on there. i have another interview tomorrow and when i do my nerding harder today, i may be opening a new page, just to get a different perspective, as one never knows what the next few days will bring.
it is off to the Rec Center for some laps around the track. i am willing to bet, that i get at least three recruiter calls during my workout. i may actually take them, as just for today, i am in the mood and the mode to be kind to them as they do the best they can, with what they have and have to do. life is certainly happening for me, and i am quite sure that i can stay clean, until i lay my head on the i]pillow tonight, thanks to different circumstances of those with whom i share my recovery.
∞ DT ∞
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on
the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.
Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness,
that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the
walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within),
that its use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves
for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.