....and the crowd roars!!!
That is what I meant when I said..."must we??" I just said it shorter.
In a perfect world we are all working the same progam looking for the same result...peace in our souls. But in the real world it all gets muddied up with labels.
Labels ARE shorthand for alot of the behaviors that fall under that particular umbrella and it is alot easier on the fingers to call an A an A. "The Beav" is my personal preference.
Victim is another label that we throw around...an individual who has been hurt, damaged or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness or chance.
For myself, I am an Anon. That is a label and thereby shorthand for an individual who has been victimized but is working a program of recovery.
I have also heard the label Anon hissed in uncomplimentary ways and I have never felt the need to defend it. When I hear it I first think that the hisser has probably just been handed his walking papers in one way or another. But that is the nature of MY disease...to try to understand.
I have been in my personal program for a long time and I admire any person who has been on this journey long enough to embrace both sides of the coin. For those of us who are not there yet...it is a goal worth working toward.