It is okay - and perhaps preferable - to live an easy-going life.
To float where we once might have kicked,
To let go where we might have held on or even grasped
I think we finally get to the point where we understand drama is NOT the center of our lives, isn't necessary, and really, is actually working against our serenity.
It's another layer of what it was like we no longer lived with the alcoholic in our lives - suddenly too silent, suddenly without familiar conflict, suddenly with far too much time for ourselves.
We had to detox from the anticipatory chaos, the chaos itself, and the chaos hangover that we were used to. And we did.
And then along comes drama, just another stand-in for the alcoholic who used to command our attention.
All that time we used to spend on drama is now available for US, and that is healthy, yet terribly disconcerting. When we understand the gift of free time and freedom to attend to what pleases us, not what commands us to overexcite and hyperventilate about nothing much at all, about just noise, we have shed another alcoholic skin, and that is something to revel in.
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