Three easy steps to complete alienation and self loathing!

Step 1: something is seen or heard which triggers growly, hurty, bitey unpleasant feelings.

Step two: act on or set said growly feelings in writing. Look utterly foolish, pathetic, and assholey in front of God and Everybody

Step three: Regret, regret, regret.

One of these days, I will skip step two. And then maybe step 3 can also stop happening quite so often. maybe. something to try for, anyway.

The Gift so nice they sent it twice

this showed up in my email twice today...I guess I really, really needed to read it.

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Enjoying the Good Days

Good feelings can become a habitual part of our life. There is absolutely no virtue in the unnecessary suffering many of us have felt for much of our life. We don't have to allow others to make us miserable, and we don't have to make ourselves miserable.

A good day does not have to be the "calm before the storm." That's an old way of thinking we learned in dysfunctional systems. In recovery, a good day or a good feeling doesn't mean we're in denial. We don't have to wreck our good times by obsessively searching for or creating a problem.

Enjoying our good days doesn't mean we're being disloyal to loved ones who are having problems. We don't have to make ourselves feel guilty because other people aren't having a good day. We don't have to make ourselves miserable to be like them. They can have their day and their feelings; we can have ours.

A good feeling is to be enjoyed. More than we can imagine, good days are ours for the asking.

Today, I will let myself enjoy what is good. I don't have to wreck my good day or good feeling; I don't have to let others spoil it either.

You are reading from the book:

The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

The Language of Letting Go © 1990 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the permission of of Hazelden.

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