Sometimes, I've heard, people may have an experience that catapults them into recovery and transformation. You know, like those people whose hair turns from black to white overnight. Instantaneously.
However, more times than not, there are people like me who are the common, garden variety types who must do the work to be honest, open-minded and willing to accept. This does not seem to come naturally easy for some of us. For example, because I wish it was so...then so it is. Nope. It's simple and hard as heck to do. Especially for someone who complicates the simplest of things. The saying is, "If it ain't hard...give me a minute...I'll make it hard." Jeesh. If I'd just follow the directions clearly written in the big book, "Alcoholics Anonymous"! It's like baking a cake and following the recipe. It comes out right every time if I just do what is clearly written down.
Certainly one of my goals is, one day when I grow up, I want to be a healthy, authentic, loving and lovable, caring, nurturing human being instead of acting "as if". As if: "I know what's best for you, me and the rest of the world. Now if only everybody did what I thought was best for them, we would all be okay." Which is B.S. because that is strictly GOD's business, not mine. What would the whole world be like if we all MYOB and quit making it all so hard for ourselves and each other?
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