we pine

 

 

 

 

Without gratitude

my take on my life

is pretty much bullshit,

since it's stained with entitlement, wildly unrealistic expectations and self involvement.

(Which, as toxic as they are, can be quite subtle, sometimes.)

Alcoholics don't own these things of course -- but alcoholism uses them as the building blocks of profoundly twisted thinking -- all in the service of getting us alone,

then getting us thinking only of ourselves,

then getting us drunk,

then getting us dead.

 

Like  the yeast in bread dough,

gratitude is the essential ingredient to

make my spirits rise

above my petty, "poor-me's"

and break free of alcoholic thinking.

 

Without gratitude,

real happiness

may always elude an alcoholic.

 

Comments

[Luna]

Thank you so much! Two days ago I was ready to run off to Costa Rica for a 15 year vacation. Actually seeing and loving reality is sooo much better!

[kelly]

I agree!

[jasper]

primo

[pobres]

Grateful is not about being happy
Happy is about being grateful ?
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If Life gives you nothing but lemons
Make lemonade!
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All is Not for the best in this life
but make the best of whats there
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I have lots of great reasons to be drunk
but only one great reason not to be -
it is not what my God wants for me