Honestly, I believe that is has been my time working AA's "program for living" which has allowed me to see its beauty. But more than that, it has allowed me to care about sham, drudgery and broken dreams.
As a drinking alcoholic -- or as a dry one -- an alcoholic's lack of perspective is staggering. We are so inwardly focused, so obliviatingly self-obsessed, that any time life didn't go our way we considered that a tragedy, while truly tragic things, if they didn't touch our lives directly, generally failed to register on the emotional scale.
Being sober -- in the fullest sense of the term -- allows us to rejoin the human experience; sham, drudgery, dented dreams... and all its beauty.
I can't help but comment...actually....no,(I digress) I actually have to restrain myself from commenting to ALL of the posts you write that resonate all over my body!!!and for a change (sarcasm)This following paragrah inform me about myself things I was not aware of: "We are so inwardly focused, so obliviatingly self-obsessed, that any time life didn't go our way we considered that a tragedy, while truly tragic things, if they didn't touch our lives directly, generally failed to register on the emotional scale." So, I guess, thank you again is what I am trying to say. I feel so few people get me and we haven't met, yet you write about me,when you write from your experience.
T
Posted by: T. | October 11, 2013 at 07:39 PM
oh and PS: "Desiderata" has been on my wall for years and years and years. It helped me through so many times of self-pity and depression and obsession and...you get the idea
Love
T
Posted by: T. | October 11, 2013 at 07:42 PM