I have my eye on addiction
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I have my eye on addiction
For me, addiction is like having my eye so close to a painting that I can literally see just a dark spot. So close I see essentially nothing.
Yet if I stood back a bit I might see the Mona Lisa .... With a smile that isn't.
Or maybe a Monet with brilliant color?
Yet my addictions. Plural... Keep me so close I cannot yet see the beauty of it all.
I choose to see my life as a watercolor. Where the colors of people, places and events blend into one another. To remove any one single thing would certainly take with it something of another. Or leave behind traces of that which brought pain.
I think I will leave all the colors where they lay and step back to enjoy the abstract.
Yet if I stood back a bit I might see the Mona Lisa .... With a smile that isn't.
Or maybe a Monet with brilliant color?
Yet my addictions. Plural... Keep me so close I cannot yet see the beauty of it all.
I choose to see my life as a watercolor. Where the colors of people, places and events blend into one another. To remove any one single thing would certainly take with it something of another. Or leave behind traces of that which brought pain.
I think I will leave all the colors where they lay and step back to enjoy the abstract.
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Originally Posted by Weasel1966 
For me, addiction is like having my eye so close to a painting that I can literally see just a dark spot. So close I see essentially nothing.
Yet if I stood back a bit I might see the Mona Lisa .... With a smile that isn't.
Or maybe a Monet with brilliant color?
Yet my addictions. Plural... Keep me so close I cannot yet see the beauty of it all.
I choose to see my life as a watercolor. Where the colors of people, places and events blend into one another. To remove any one single thing would certainly take with it something of another. Or leave behind traces of that which brought pain.
I think I will leave all the colors where they lay and step back to enjoy the abstract.
Yet if I stood back a bit I might see the Mona Lisa .... With a smile that isn't.
Or maybe a Monet with brilliant color?
Yet my addictions. Plural... Keep me so close I cannot yet see the beauty of it all.
I choose to see my life as a watercolor. Where the colors of people, places and events blend into one another. To remove any one single thing would certainly take with it something of another. Or leave behind traces of that which brought pain.
I think I will leave all the colors where they lay and step back to enjoy the abstract.
A simple guy making his way
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Thanks dream.
I was just thinking that to see things I need to step back and what might I see when I do. Drinking and drugs are something I did when I looked intently at a single spot and refusing to see the impact to the whole of my life.
A bit heady I know. But I had to express it.
I was just thinking that to see things I need to step back and what might I see when I do. Drinking and drugs are something I did when I looked intently at a single spot and refusing to see the impact to the whole of my life.
A bit heady I know. But I had to express it.
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Indeed he does! (ps I'm not even kidding about my personally signed copy of the memoir)
Yep, that's the thing...you cannot remove the black and the darker parts of your life picture. They are there, painted there for good. For me the goal has changed. I used to rail against those dark strokes, I wanted them gone. Since that is not possible, I learned how to begin to see their purpose. The darker parts make the colorful parts all the more vibrant.
Yep, that's the thing...you cannot remove the black and the darker parts of your life picture. They are there, painted there for good. For me the goal has changed. I used to rail against those dark strokes, I wanted them gone. Since that is not possible, I learned how to begin to see their purpose. The darker parts make the colorful parts all the more vibrant.
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Originally Posted by soberlicious
Since that is not possible, I learned how to begin to see their purpose. The darker parts make the colorful parts all the more vibrant.
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