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๐Ÿง my life is more ๐Ÿง

Posted: Sun, Feb 2, 2025 12:34:39 PM

stable, sure, but is it still getting better? this is a question i ask myself, time and again, especially when i feel stuck or out of sorts. it pairs perfectly with its complement: is this recovery gig, worth it? which arises when i get in a tough spot where a character defect or less than stellar behavior appears to be an easy way out. right here and right now, i can say my life is still getting better and this gig is paying off. i may not get the dream job i may get offered, but the cable guy pays the bills. i may not have the sort of bank accounts that many of my friends have, but i am doing more than getting by. i am whole, learning to be genuine and certainly more self-aware and it had been weeks since i flipped anyone off in traffic, perhaps even months, but that ended yesterday. all in all, i am certainly better in every sense, so if i am better, my life is better as an extension of how i am doing.
i get persevering, as today i was capable of running 5.6 miles. one year ago, i could barely walk around the block. i was ignorant, as i should have gone back to PT, but i thought i “knew” what they would say and just did the exercises they had already assigned. i persevered and i may not reach my goal of eight minute and fifty second miles for the Bolder Boulder in May, BUT i am going to train as suggested and see what the results may be.
not a whole lot more shaking. i did get one sponsee starting STEP ONE and another one off his ass and out for dinner yesterday. i found a new cigar to break things up a bit, that i decimated on my drive home from Wyoming last night. the jeans i am wearing fit a bit looser than they did a month ago. it appears that all is right in my world, in the here and now. all i have to do, is keep doing the needful and let the results come as they may, just for today.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ 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

3) He who possesses the mother of the state may continue long. His
case is like that (of the plant) of which we say that its roots are
deep and its flower stalks firm:--this is the way to secure that its
enduring life shall long be seen