Your post on X, "Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure; a good life is the progressive expansion of things that bring you pleasure" rang like a crystal bell tone for me. Your dad is right, you've paid for an education that is, imo, worth more than any university degree. My peers are way ahead of me. I think of the board game Life and how I never really played it, but everyone around me loved it. I remember thinking that's not how I want life to be. My family/ peers have houses, vacation homes, boats, expensive cars... I can't think of a single one with good health and they are stuck in financial traps, which keep them in work-a-holic mode in their life-draining occupations. Making mistakes has helped me figure out what I don't want, where I don't fit, & what I just can't do. I won't be able to find what works for me if I don't stop drinking with my husband. Reading this has given me an extra umfph, a necessary catalyst. We just moved to a new area and it just so happens that the AA meeting house is down the street from us. I take that as another nudge. 🙏🍀❤💦
oh thank you so much for sharing this! I also needed to hear these words of validation <3 I fully agree with everything you said, and it sounds like you already attained a lot of clarity on your life and what you want/don't want, so I hope the meetings can help you continue on this path even further. sending love
Your post on X, "Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure; a good life is the progressive expansion of things that bring you pleasure" rang like a crystal bell tone for me. Your dad is right, you've paid for an education that is, imo, worth more than any university degree. My peers are way ahead of me. I think of the board game Life and how I never really played it, but everyone around me loved it. I remember thinking that's not how I want life to be. My family/ peers have houses, vacation homes, boats, expensive cars... I can't think of a single one with good health and they are stuck in financial traps, which keep them in work-a-holic mode in their life-draining occupations. Making mistakes has helped me figure out what I don't want, where I don't fit, & what I just can't do. I won't be able to find what works for me if I don't stop drinking with my husband. Reading this has given me an extra umfph, a necessary catalyst. We just moved to a new area and it just so happens that the AA meeting house is down the street from us. I take that as another nudge. 🙏🍀❤💦
oh thank you so much for sharing this! I also needed to hear these words of validation <3 I fully agree with everything you said, and it sounds like you already attained a lot of clarity on your life and what you want/don't want, so I hope the meetings can help you continue on this path even further. sending love
Wonderful read. We are all flawed in some way. Some of us are lucky enough to hope and find redemption in the realm of tomorrow.
thank you so much! means a lot <3