Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I’d had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It’s a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It’s the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don’t practice your program every day, you’re putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.
My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.
I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.
Sometimes life’s so much cooler when you just don’t know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.
My days are whatever I want them to be. I don’t have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.
I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, ‘Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won’t. Such is life.
When you realize that there’s a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you’ve identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
I think people that have fear that, ‘Oh if I have a kid I won’t be able to do this and I won’t be able to do that.’ It’s kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
I think dying is the ultimate high…
