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Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2022 07:53:35 AM

addiction did to me and the state in which it left my life is a mode of behavior i could dwell in. when i got clean, i certainly loved to play the victim and host self-pity parties, after all, nothing was my fault. when i felt the world was against, it had to be because they did not get me, not because i was acting out in self-centered, self-entitled, selfish, self-will. today, even though my life is more than a bit messy, i know that when i feel the world is against me, maybe, just maybe i have to take a rational look at my attitudes about who i am and what i am doing. chances are, i am living in a bout of self-centered, self-entitled, selfish, self-will. i lost my job, because i did not work hard enough to keep it. they gave me ample opportunity to “earn” the privilege to work for them, and i blew it. today, i was given the keys to succeed at a technical interview next week and my plan for the next three days, is to do my best to implement all of their suggestions, starting with writing a bit of code.
as i sat this morning, fretting about how i would eat, read the news, write my blog, get out walking and be showered off and shaved by 10 AM, i did not believe i would be able to achieve anything of substance. in those first few minutes of my meditation i kept arranging and rearranging my schedule to eke out every possible second and when i finally let go with the decisions that i could and would be able to make it happen, guess what? i “got” to go down to that place and accept that i was not a victim of my job hunt, i was a volunteer and if i did not walk into this day, with all of the “news of thew world” under my belt, i would thrive, nevertheless. the meeting went well, i got to write this and now, i am headed out to walk some of my angst and stress out. i can be okay not knowing that kAaron Rogers won the MVP for the 2021 NFL season, or that Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that Nancy Pelosi is corrupting the US of A with gazpacho. i love gazpacho and maybe i should e-mail Nancy to get her recipe. 🤣 it is a good day to be okay with where i am and to do my best to pass my next audition.

∞ DT ∞


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๐Ÿ˜’ strategies ๐Ÿ˜•
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๐Ÿ‘Ž i am no longer ๐Ÿ‘
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๐ŸŒ„ bitterness ends ๐ŸŒ‡
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๐ŸŒˆ no picnic! ๐Ÿฆ„
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๐Ÿš‚ without addiction, ๐Ÿš…
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๐Ÿ’ช no denying ๐Ÿ’ฉ
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๐Ÿ’™ freedom and spiritual ๐Ÿ’™
905 words ➥ Saturday, February 11, 2017 by donnot
โ‡ pitying myself โ‡
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ยฟ a curse into a blessing ?
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โ„‘ the path to freedom and spiritual growth begins โ„‘
510 words ➥ Monday, February 11, 2013 by donnot
โ‡” i will accept the fact of my addiction and, just for today โ‡”
499 words ➥ Saturday, February 11, 2012 by donnot
โ‰ก i have become very grateful in the course of my recovery โ‰ก
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รพ active addiction was no picnic; i barely came out of it alive รพ
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โˆž blessings, curses, or just acceptance โˆž
334 words ➥ Saturday, February 11, 2006 by donnot
โ†” a curse? a blessing! โ†”
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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 1

5) The relation of the Tao to all the world is like that of the great
rivers and seas to the streams from the valleys