Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of a joyous and torrid path that we call life. We know that many of us living in developed countries have had people and institutions telling us we should be happier and that we should have more of what they prescribe to in which they are trying to sell to us so we can have such happiness. What they don’t tell us is how difficult life can become as we try to obtain such happiness. We become totally individualistic as we try to gain membership to such attractive pitches and lose touch with such endeavors as kindness, love, and otherness. It presents for us a torrid path in which joy is hard to find and happiness is unobtainable. Some of us call it obsessive want and many of us experience it as addiction. It is its reality and life becomes more difficult than it needs to be. One day at a time recovery reveals this to us. In recovery we find gratitude and in gratitude we find joy. We understand that life can be difficult but we find it is easier, kinder and more loving. Peace.
