One Day at a Time
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One Day at a Time
One Day at a Time
~Buddy T
I remember the effect it had on me the first time I heard someone say I was powerless over yesterday and tomorrow. This seems like a simple enough statement alright, but the truth is that it had just never occurred to me before.
I spent so much time worrying about stuff that was already past -- wishing that I could undo it, or make up for it somehow. Al-Anon made it simple for me to understand that was just impossible.
One of the best lessons that I "got" when I came into these rooms was there were two things that I was surely powerless over -- yesterday and tomorrow.
All I Have is Today
I may not like what happened yesterday, but I am powerless to change it. I may not like what will happen tomorrow, but it hasn't happened yet!
If I accept yesterday's mistakes and troubles and refrain from worrying about what MIGHT happen tomorrow, then I am living right in the middle of today, which is all I really have any way!
I had heard that same principle expressed many times before expressed as, "take therefore no thought for tomorrow..." but I never LEARNED what that really meant until I came into the rooms of Al-Anon Family Groups.
~Buddy T
I remember the effect it had on me the first time I heard someone say I was powerless over yesterday and tomorrow. This seems like a simple enough statement alright, but the truth is that it had just never occurred to me before.
I spent so much time worrying about stuff that was already past -- wishing that I could undo it, or make up for it somehow. Al-Anon made it simple for me to understand that was just impossible.
One of the best lessons that I "got" when I came into these rooms was there were two things that I was surely powerless over -- yesterday and tomorrow.
All I Have is Today
I may not like what happened yesterday, but I am powerless to change it. I may not like what will happen tomorrow, but it hasn't happened yet!
If I accept yesterday's mistakes and troubles and refrain from worrying about what MIGHT happen tomorrow, then I am living right in the middle of today, which is all I really have any way!
I had heard that same principle expressed many times before expressed as, "take therefore no thought for tomorrow..." but I never LEARNED what that really meant until I came into the rooms of Al-Anon Family Groups.
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I heard it stated in a little cruder, graphic way:
If I'm standing with one foot in yesterday, and the other foot in tomorrow.....I'm pi$$ing on today.
I've wrecked a whole bunch of todays crying over yesterdays and/or worrying about tomorrows. It took way too long to figure out how to stand with both feet firmly planted in "today".
If I'm standing with one foot in yesterday, and the other foot in tomorrow.....I'm pi$$ing on today.
I've wrecked a whole bunch of todays crying over yesterdays and/or worrying about tomorrows. It took way too long to figure out how to stand with both feet firmly planted in "today".
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