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๐ŸŽ i got clean ๐ŸŽ

Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2025 10:51:08 AM

because someone else worked Step Twelve. i am no stranger to chaos and conflict in the fellowship. i often forget that clean times does not equal recovery, or always knowing what the next right thing to do is. coming to term with that has meant that i do not offer unsolicited advice nor do i attempt to make my shadow bigger or grander than anyone else in the room. humility, as log in coming to me, as i lived a life trapped in a fantasy world of always being right about every fucking thing.
as i get to my third and final day of creating my political fantasy AI image. i have found that it has been a fun distraction and it is time to let it go and get back to taking care of bringing home some bacon. life does not stop, just because i want to take a vacation from it. the past few days remind me of what it was like to live in obsession and compulsion. as interesting as it has been, i am starting to feel it working me over and it is more than time to let it go and return to real life.
i really am okay today and as this day grinds on, i will pay more attention to what i am being told, what i feel and how i am handling stuff. it is a good day to be clean. it is a better day to remember who and what i am, an addict in recovery, doing hi best to be a better person that i was yesterday.

∞ DT ∞


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๐Ÿ’€ not a ๐Ÿ’€
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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) Let him keep his mouth closed, and shut up the portals (of his
nostrils), and all his life he will be exempt from laborious exertion.
Let him keep his mouth open, and (spend his breath) in the promotion
of his affairs, and all his life there will be no safety for him.