Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: There is no wind that always blows a storm.
— Euripides
It is easy to think we will always be in the same boat, that our characters are fixed, our habits unalterable. “This is who I am. You can take me or leave me.” When we say that, we often really mean “when you know who I really am, you will leave me.” And that’s the ultimate position of the addict.
But no one is predestined to be a certain person or to behave in a particular way. And no one stops growing and changing. We have to have faith in the immense possibilities of movement and growth.
Life itself is more than winds and storms. It can be calm, changeable, hot, dry, mellow, promising, gloomy, bright, and serene, and we can match its immense diversity of moods. For we are part of life, part of all this wondrous change and diversity, and if we are not afraid to let ourselves go, we can be as varied and as flexible as life.
I don’t believe that I am fixed in my ways or stuck in my addiction. I am learning to be open to all the changes that life can offer.
Hazelden Foundation
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