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Old 03-20-2009, 03:37 AM
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Tazman53
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Matt as others have already stated, you are not giving your self credit where credit is due.

Have you not made decisions daily to not drink?

When ever you make a choice that is a decision?

You posted today, that was a decision.

I understand where you are coming from, it seems to be very common amoung us all, alkies or not, we are our own worse critics, nothing I do is quite good enough.

Matt before I got sober I lived upset with myself, I was a failure because I never lived up to my own goals for myself, even worse though was I viewed every one else as losers because they were not living up to my standards I had set for myself or for them.

In sobriety I have slowly learned that I am not perfect, I am far from perfect, but I strive to progress in making myself a better person instead of dwelling upon my imperfections I work on them accepting that I will never achieve perfection, but that I can become better.

I am happy with where I am at today, warts & all, I accept that I have things about me I need to improve, but I look back and see I have made progress and that is a good thing. In sobriety I have also learned to accept people for who & what they are, I no longer dwell on what I feel is wrong with them, but instead look for the good in them, there are a whole lot of good people in this world then I used to think there were...... Funny thing I have found, but if I seek out good, I find it, if I look for the bad I get that as well!

Life is much better I have found when I look at the positive instead of the negative.
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