Monday, January 31, 2011

just for today ...

So I go to an AA meeting on Monday nights ... Typical AA Speaker meeting, type of thing. Sometimes good sometimes less so ... But it is a recovery touchstone so I go. I have walls; big solid thick walls. I have spent a great deal of time & effort building, maintaining, and fortifying these walls ... You cannot get past them. None Shall Pass!!!!

One of my challenges is to change that. I wish I had long term friends and trusted confidants ... but that involves risk. That kind of risk is hard to be comfortable with - not impossible but tough. I want them but I am not comfortable taking the risk based on my past experience. In my past I have readily trusted people who are undeserving with information that they were less than careful with & it always came back to bite me in the butt .... So how do I learn how to change the choices I make ? How does one un-learn his core scripts and develop new healthy patterns?

1 comment:

Lily on the Road said...

You do have long term friends, you just have to "see" them and allow them through those walls.

We all have had people take what they know of us and use it against us. Those people are not worth the time to reflect upon...let them go and don't enable their hurt upon you.