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Mon, Feb 21, 2005 05:48:49 AM


∞  self-pity and recovery  ∞
posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 05:48:49 AM

 

for some reason i woke up this morning in just a poor me mood. i did not want to get out of bed and face the day at all. even though i did what i have done every morning i am still in a place. nothing is good enough, i cannot do anything right or it takes an extraordinary effort to accomplish and i just want to crawl back into my bed and go to sleep with the covers over my head and isolate myself from everyone and everything.
i know that this is will pass, but it feels like the days gone by. of course my head tells me that i should feel one way and since i am in a mood recovery is not working.
what the hell is going on?? i do not know. could it be that i actually did some writing on the first step last night? could it be the little tiff i had with my girl friend last night? could it be the time i have lost to my disease? or could it just be???!
well whatever it is, i will go through my day as if i am doing OK and try to limit the damage i do in my wake. naming feelings is really unimportant. finding the root cause is just as useless. living life and facing the world through the eyes of recovery and not the eyes of self-pity is the action i need to take and see what happens.
&infin DT ∞

 

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THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

3) (Those who) possessed the highest benevolence were (always seeking)
to carry it out, and had no need to be doing so. (Those who) possessed
the highest righteousness were (always seeking) to carry it out, and
had need to be so doing.