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Thu, Feb 10, 2005 06:12:46 AM
↔ FUN in RECOVERY??!! ↔
posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 06:12:46 AM
of course there is no fun in recovery, all of my deepest fears came true after i got clean that i would be a joyless, serious, unoriginal zombie. NOT!
of course what i consider fun today is entirely different than what i considered fun back in the day, but that is okay. i have always had a problem with the examples presented in the JFT reading, just because they were and are outside of my experience, i do not live by an ocean so seeing dolphins frolic in the setting sun is not something i get to do very often, so it goes.
for that very reason i will do not list at length what i do for fun today, but i am happy finding joy and fun in activities that do not include obliterating my consciousness with mind or mood altering substances. what i have discovered, things that once bored me to tears are now part of what i consider fun and things that i used to think were fun now appear to be totally insane. i can enjoy whatever i happen to be doing in this moment and if i do not i can move on.
so yes, just for today I WILL HAVE FUN IN RECOVERY!
∞ DT ∞
of course what i consider fun today is entirely different than what i considered fun back in the day, but that is okay. i have always had a problem with the examples presented in the JFT reading, just because they were and are outside of my experience, i do not live by an ocean so seeing dolphins frolic in the setting sun is not something i get to do very often, so it goes.
for that very reason i will do not list at length what i do for fun today, but i am happy finding joy and fun in activities that do not include obliterating my consciousness with mind or mood altering substances. what i have discovered, things that once bored me to tears are now part of what i consider fun and things that i used to think were fun now appear to be totally insane. i can enjoy whatever i happen to be doing in this moment and if i do not i can move on.
so yes, just for today I WILL HAVE FUN IN RECOVERY!
∞ DT ∞
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) Let them not thoughtlessly indulge themselves in their ordinary
life; let them not act as if weary of what that life depends on.