Originally Posted by
Kjell 
I know I'm doing the right thing (had a lot of consequences the last few years).
...but I'm still living in the past. I yearn for better times, but constantly think about what I did wrong.
If you could have turned it around then, how much better your life would be!".
Sick I know.
Not sick, normal, at least I hope so!! I think the same things... If I had just done such and such back when....
When I get into the replicative thinking... I invoke the second and third steps... it helps me.... I don't know everything, why it happened.... why I let it happen... what will happen....
Just live for today and not fear tomorrow. Give up the "what ifs" of the past. It's too much otherwise... More sobriety, more working a program of recovery.... brings serenity.
Yes be patient, but not passive....
Mark