| Bon voyage
People here are on their own journeys, that I should take into account - and I should'nt be so snide in some of my comments. Eq pointed out that there is a time and a place for criticisim, and I humbly admit that perhaps here is not the best place. So, after a cappucino and some CBT, I do feel that the best thing for me is to move on, away from the thing that bothers me so much.
I know I have said this in the past - the moving on thing - and come whinning back with my tail between my legs, but I think I am now past the contemplation stage and ready to put in some action in (besides, I spend much of my day at work at SR, and if I put that much effort into my job then I might actually get somewhere!).
One thing I have learnt from my recovery experience is that there are many different ways of looking at things - that I have a perceptual filter from which I make sense of the world. And I have a right to choose what is best for me. I now actually realise how achingly wonderful science and discovery is. And how I can examine, understand, and appreciate the world and myself with a critical, investigative mind.
I do feel I played a small part in getting the news out that there is other ways to recover, and if AA or someones elses perceptual filter is making you feel [i]ill[i] then it does not necessarily mean 'jail, institutions, or death'. People talk here about 'beliefs'. What a discovery them little units in the mind are.
Anyway, sometimes its best to walk away, and adopt something new. So I am gonna duck out of SR and concentrate on things that can improve my life, bit by bit, over time.
Take care, you rock. 5
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