The program has given me the best days I've ever had. But thinking about all that lost time can still bring me down. --Jane S.
Telling the difference between yesterday, today, and tomorrow may be easy for most people, but it isn't for many of us. Our past tends to overshadow both the present and the future. Until we learn to draw a line between then and now, the gloom of "what was" expands and spreads like noxious smoke or a sickening odour. "What can be" is blotted out.
Where does yesterday end and today begin? For us, that may be the central recovery issue. Our battle is one of boundaries.
No matter how spoiled the past may have been, our future is spotless. If, in our minds, we say good-bye to the past, we can begin writing a new story and painting a new picture.
Every day is new - fresh and shimmering with possibilities. The future is a long string of such days. As our perception of time corrects itself, as we learn to accept the past and look forward to the future, we can focus on today and live it well.
Today, I will see the bad days of the past as rotten apples. I will throw them out of my barrel to protect my new days.
-- Edited by Quetzal at 05:24, 2006-08-16
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Morning Carol Gal...and yupper...can sure identify with this one...You have a nice day...People to do..and things to see...um...or something like that (smile)
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"LOVE" devoid of self-gratification, is in essence, the will, to the greatest good...of another.
What a great reminder to start a new day. The longer I stay sober, just for 24 hours at a time, the farther away those 'bad days' are. They are so far down in that barrel now, I really have to 'dig' to get them out.
