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Hey friends,
I need some help today. Nothing big, I'm just in a crap mood today, don't know why. Just want to be pissy I suppose.
But I don't want to act out on it and I know I need to change this attitude before it gets the best on me.
But, lo and behold, as I'm typing this, a certain passage from the Big Book comes to mind, you know the one. Page 87, As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We ask "Thy will (not mine) be done".
Sure as shooting, I can feet my attitude changing. This shit really works, don't it.
Thanks friends, for being here for me.
Scarlet
I need some help today. Nothing big, I'm just in a crap mood today, don't know why. Just want to be pissy I suppose.
But I don't want to act out on it and I know I need to change this attitude before it gets the best on me.
But, lo and behold, as I'm typing this, a certain passage from the Big Book comes to mind, you know the one. Page 87, As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We ask "Thy will (not mine) be done".
Sure as shooting, I can feet my attitude changing. This shit really works, don't it.
Thanks friends, for being here for me.
Scarlet
Scarlet sometimes just writing your feelings down begins the process of change. When we look at what we wrote the sun begins to shine on the dark recesses of our mind. Poetry and music help me as well.
Quandary
Never have I been glad or sad
That there was such a thing as bad.
There had to be, I understood,
For there to have been any good.
It was by having been contrasted
That good and bad so long had lasted.
That's why discrimination reigns.
That's why we need a lot of brains
If only to discriminate
'Twixt what to love and what to hate.
To quote the oracle at Delphi,
Love thy neighbor as thyself, aye,
And hate him as thyself thou hatest.
There quandary is at its greatest.
We learned from the forbidden fruit
For brains there is no substitute.
"Unless it's sweetbreads," you suggest
With innuendo I detest.
You drive me to confess in ink:
Once I was fool enough to think
That brains and sweetbreads were the same,
Till I was caught and put to shame,
First by a butcher, then a cook,
Then by a scientific book.
But 'twas by making sweetbreads do
I passed with such a high I.Q.
~Robert Frost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFq-HHA0k2E
Are you laughing yet?
For me I actually find the "fake it" works. I smile. I smile at others at the grocery store, out on a run, at my kids school. And eventually I feel better. Others might think I'm nuts but I feel better.
I too love the thy will not mine be done mantra. It works too.
Only often I feel like "thy" will is my will which takes me back to square one. So I start on the fake smile again:) that and exercise. Those are my 'big guns."
Oh and calling another alcoholic. That works too!