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Wed, Dec 7, 2022 08:08:26 AM


😬 to survive 🙄
posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 08:08:26 AM

 

my emotions, all i have to do is let go and FEEL them, no matter what they happen to be. i have heard it said and often repeated that i have never seen anyone die because of a feeling, that has been my experience, with one caveat, i have seen others harm themselves, relapse and commit suicide, as a reaction to their emotions, so i guess it is apt to say that surviving emotions and my reaction to them, is a task for just about any day. this morning as i sit safely ensconced in the office, i am still feeling the adrenaline of the panic brake i experienced when the cars ahead of me on the highway. stopped for a hallucination. i guess i need not judge those drivers, but i can say this, as soon as i could, i got out from behind them and left them in the dust. not sure what was going on with them, but i know i took my eyes off the road in order to “skip” a song on my play list, and that was certainly my bad! 🥴
yesterday, i went to another repair shop to get my oil changed and experienced the worst service in my life. on their second day of bidness, they were still having issues and Murphy took over. i can say that the human element of their service was outstanding and they did give me a giant discount for my less than stellar experience. i will let it go and perhaps if the stars align again to favor a second try, i will see if i want to take my car there for service. considering all that i did not have to do, yesterday afternoon, it did not turn out too badly. my life went on and i “got to” drive my car to work this morning.
moving on, i am certainly in a dangerous place in both my fantasy football leagues, on a long win streak and at the top of the standings. in the past, when i arrived in this spot, i got obsessed with “playing around” with my line-ups and players. the end result was after all my obsession and football moves, i ended up tanking my teams. i did need to make a move or two to cover my players on “bye week” and am starting to second guess my choices. i now have four players, playing on Thursday night and am feeling more than a bit twitchy about making those choices. i guess i can survive that feeling, let go until i get home this evening and take a calm and considered look at whether or not i want to roll with those changes or mess around with them. right here and right now, i need some coffee and i need to get busy doing what they pay me to do. it is a great day to be clean and all in all, not a bad one to allow this day to happen as it will. i am certainly powerless over what emotions i have, but i retain the power to respond, rather than react to them, just for today.

∞ DT ∞

 

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∞ surviving my emotions ∞ 292 words ➥ Tuesday, December 7, 2004 by: donnot
↔ i survived! ↔ 621 words ➥ Wednesday, December 7, 2005 by: donnot
∞ you do not survive your feelings, i thought, you drug them. ∞ 380 words ➥ Thursday, December 7, 2006 by: donnot
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μ when i was using, i never gave myself the chance to learn how to survive my feelings μ 515 words ➥ Sunday, December 7, 2008 by: donnot
∏ the problem is, that **cure** for unsurvivable emotions will kill me ∏ 669 words ➥ Monday, December 7, 2009 by: donnot
∫ by using the tools available to me, i can develop the ability to survive my emotions ∫ 700 words ➥ Tuesday, December 7, 2010 by: donnot
‡ i will not deny my feelings and i will do my best ‡ 378 words ➥ Wednesday, December 7, 2011 by: donnot
¢ by taking stock of my day, getting honest about my part in it, ¢ 647 words ➥ Friday, December 7, 2012 by: donnot
⇒ i was tired of pretending that addiction and my life ⇐ 310 words ➥ Saturday, December 7, 2013 by: donnot
→ the more i live a program of active recovery, → 606 words ➥ Sunday, December 7, 2014 by: donnot
☀ surviving my emotions ☁ 591 words ➥ Monday, December 7, 2015 by: donnot
☂ giving myself ☃ 897 words ➥ Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by: donnot
💥 surrendering 💸 410 words ➥ Thursday, December 7, 2017 by: donnot
💊 the **cure** 💉 579 words ➥ Friday, December 7, 2018 by: donnot
🔥 developing the ability 🔥 571 words ➥ Saturday, December 7, 2019 by: donnot
🤔 you have 🤔 522 words ➥ Monday, December 7, 2020 by: donnot
🙈 in order 🙈 410 words ➥ Tuesday, December 7, 2021 by: donnot
🧠 keeping my mind 🤯 485 words ➥ Thursday, December 7, 2023 by: donnot
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☯ 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) They should think their (coarse) food sweet; their (plain) clothes
beautiful; their (poor) dwellings places of rest; and their common
(simple) ways sources of enjoyment.