Never Look Back!
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Never Look Back!
Never Look Back!
When I got into recovery, I learned to try to never look back. “Try” because sometimes it’s very hard not to do. Nightmares for example. How do you control a nightmare? I still have them occasionally after nearly 29 years. Never say “Without that binge I could have been a contendah” (paraphrasing Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront”). Or as they say to the high wire folks in the circus, “Never look down”. Look straight ahead and keep your focus. And know that finally you are a “contendah”, let's hope victorious in the toughest, the hardest and most courgeous battle of all: the battle with oneself for sobriety and who you really are!
So let's all of us join the" shape up" out there on the waterfront of recovery and “be a contendah”!
Bill
When I got into recovery, I learned to try to never look back. “Try” because sometimes it’s very hard not to do. Nightmares for example. How do you control a nightmare? I still have them occasionally after nearly 29 years. Never say “Without that binge I could have been a contendah” (paraphrasing Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront”). Or as they say to the high wire folks in the circus, “Never look down”. Look straight ahead and keep your focus. And know that finally you are a “contendah”, let's hope victorious in the toughest, the hardest and most courgeous battle of all: the battle with oneself for sobriety and who you really are!
So let's all of us join the" shape up" out there on the waterfront of recovery and “be a contendah”!
Bill
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