"Life is like a camera.....Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and, if things don't turn out, jus take another shot....."
“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
"I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo
To me, this is essentially what we are doing as we go through the process of over-coming alcohol abuse and getting past the challenges, setting ourselves free of addiction.
That little quote is very true when you take the time to think about it. We, I mean me, keep on doing the same error, thinking this time will be different while it is always a repetition, a routine of what I have been doing wrong since my early 20's.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~ Albert Einstein ~
Over the years of my battle with alcoholism, this quote has always made an appearance in my thought process. Obviously, having it only as a thought is not nearly enough as I have succumb to my ego and convinced myself that 'This time things will be different." on countless occasions.
So far, on this journey in sobriety, when the urge to drink has presented itself, my egocentric persona has been subdued with a clearer understanding of such a basic notion that Einstein putforth to us. It's amazing how the simplest answer can be so difficult to adhere to when your ego is in control.
1 month sober today. Stay on point everybody, it can only get better.
