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๐ŸŽญ in active addiction ๐ŸŽญ

Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2025 11:17:30 AM

and throughout my early recovery, i often needed to pretend to be someone i was not to get what i thought i wanted or needed. so i spent this morning playing around with generative AI to make some fun images. my next task is to figure out how to make an image of myself as Superman and see where i go from there. just having some fun as i never really saw myself as that, even though i had a very active fantasy life and had all sorts of notions about how much better than i was than everyone else. in reality, however, i felt different and wanted to hide that person from the entire world. needless to say, when i finally came out of that fog, i had no idea of who i was.
these days, i have a better idea of who i am and have lost my fear of showing that person to the world around me. i have come to a place where what others think of me, in none of my bidness, and that allows for all sorts of freedom. so as i am on a mission i will just say that just for today, i am who i am and i am willing to be seen by everyone around me.

∞ DT ∞


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ยข humility is a by-product of active recovery, that allows me ยข
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ยฒ recovery is its own reward ยฒ
405 words ➥ Thursday, September 3, 2009 by donnot
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483 words ➥ Wednesday, September 3, 2008 by donnot
anonymous??
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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 2

1) To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment);
not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.