Originally Posted by Dee74

I can certainly identify with how you feel EndGame...I've felt the same way many times, including sometimes here on SR.

It's not wrong to have high standards - as long as you realise it's likely noone else will ever share those standards with you

I think tho, it is wrong if you're suffering in any way from those high standards.

I was the King of Stoicism and the Prince of Responsibility.

Looking back, my work ethic in my early recovery years was a lot like my drinking ethic - full steam ahead and damn the consequences (to me).

I've, finally, learned a little balance.

What I once would have thought of as a selfish decision to step away and take a break from work, I now see as a necessary - sometimes mandatory - decision, even if it does mean sometimes someone else has to pull up the slack.

I'm not indestructible and I'm not impervious.
I'm not indispensible either.

Realising all those things was a revelation to me

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