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I am inspired, moved to tears sometimes by the stories of alcoholics who have recovered (my own father for one!) but it is a short hop from there to thinking about my brothers and their struggles and their repeatedly going to the lowest possible places due to alcohol....and then I get "hopeful" or excited that there is hope for them and then....before I know it time has gone by, maybe hours, maybe weeks, nothing has changed and I feel depressed because my fantasies of their recovery all go down in my mind.
So, again, there is nothing wrong with feeling hopeful - but for me - because of my old codie habits of mind - that can quickly translate into an expectation, and a whole lot of wasted time and emotion on other people's problems. Energy better spent paying attention to my own problems and hammering out a real plan to change my own self, my own life.
| Thanks B! I needed to hear that tonight.
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Happiness is when
what you THINK,
what you SAY,
and what you DO are in
Harmony.
-Gandhi
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