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Thu, Mar 16, 2006 07:06:30 AM


↔ finding out who i want to be today ↔
posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 07:06:30 AM

 

well this is an interesting reading coming at this time in my life. after spending the past month changing just about every fucking thing in my life, i am once again supposed to be writing a fourth step inventory. and truthfully i am more than a bit confused about who i am, much less who the man i am in the process of becoming will be.
so here i sit pondering the vagaries of the metaphysical hall of terrors, wondering if the work i have accumulated over the past two weeks is a fluke or something i can rely on. wondering whether i can really make a life together with my girl friend. wondering when the fuck i am going to find the time to finish the projects that i am doing to be of service to the fellowship that has given me this new life. and actually wondering if all of this change is really worth it.
a bit confused and confusing n'est-ce pas?
so then comes this little ditty and smacks me right upside my head. -- if i want to sort through the confusion of my life, i need to look at who i have been through a thorough and searching moral inventory. DAMMIT that is exactly what carlos would tell me, the rat bastard addicts who wrote this must have called him and slipped this in under the radar, just for me, right here and right now. after all, it really is all about me!
so what am i to do? well for one i can blow the dust of the step working guide, decide which pen i am going to use and proceed with my step writing assignment. in fact, i can work that into the my new work day structure i am in the process of developing. and i can continue on working on getting my days and weeks set-up so i can enjoy being my own boss. life is after all nothing but changing from one state to another -- this transition is just another phase of that change and if i want a map to where it is going, the time to sort out where i have been is now. so off to the showers and another day at the races.

∞ DT ∞

 

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∞ who am i today? ∞ 317 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2005 by: donnot
δ today, i do not have to be the person i once was, shaped by my addiction δ 595 words ➥ Friday, March 16, 2007 by: donnot
δ writing about my behavior and noticing how i feel about that behavior helps me understand who i want to be. Δ 390 words ➥ Sunday, March 16, 2008 by: donnot
Δ when i used, my behavior was dictated by the needs of my addiction Δ 569 words ➥ Monday, March 16, 2009 by: donnot
Δ as a using addict, i was a confused and confusing person Δ 678 words ➥ Tuesday, March 16, 2010 by: donnot
〈 the purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to 〉 807 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by: donnot
¹ if i want to find out who i am ; 615 words ➥ Friday, March 16, 2012 by: donnot
≠ from time to time, i identify my personality closely ≠ 452 words ➥ Saturday, March 16, 2013 by: donnot
• noticing how i feel about my behaviors • 553 words ➥ Sunday, March 16, 2014 by: donnot
¾ as a using addict, ¾ 613 words ➥ Monday, March 16, 2015 by: donnot
✎ inventory ✍ 685 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2016 by: donnot
✎ looking at who ✐ 805 words ➥ Thursday, March 16, 2017 by: donnot
😇 on being 😈 557 words ➥ Friday, March 16, 2018 by: donnot
💀 becoming who 💎 558 words ➥ Saturday, March 16, 2019 by: donnot
🤒 a confused 🤔 538 words ➥ Monday, March 16, 2020 by: donnot
😵 shame and despair 😕 537 words ➥ Tuesday, March 16, 2021 by: donnot
🤐 finding out who 🤔 458 words ➥ Wednesday, March 16, 2022 by: donnot
😡 accepting that 😶 566 words ➥ Thursday, March 16, 2023 by: donnot
🙻 letting go of some 🙻 356 words ➥ Saturday, March 16, 2024 by: donnot
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

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

Book 2

1) Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who
are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious
are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively
learned; the extensively learned do not know it.