3198Enjoying the Good Days

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May 10, 2005

 

 

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May 10th, 2005



Today's Thought
TUESDAY , MAY 10, 2005
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.


Enjoying the Good Days


Good feelings can become a habitual part of our life.

There is absolutely no virtue in the unnecessary suffering, which
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.

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