Some people living in one day at a time recovery learn the reality of growing acceptance. If we cannot accept what we cannot change and when we try to stop or distort healthy reality changing it from what it is we are living a life based upon delusional egocentric thinking. Living such a life we try to say black is white and we try to control others to same point as we would as if we were trying to make a leopard change its spots. Such egocentric thinking keeps us from ever accepting that we could be wrong. Our reality can even tell us we don’t need to find recovery. This is denial and denial keeps us from taking responsibility for ourselves and for our actions. We are told to live with no regrets but some people living in recovery have regrets and also we have our pains. This is from the reality of living in impaired functioning. Sometimes we cannot right that which cannot be made right. Living with the memories of the unreal world of impaired functioning will probably trouble us until the day we die. If we accept this we will be given the gift of hope and in this hope is the calming of delusional egocentric thinking. Then we will be given the challenge of one day at a time recovery. We live in recovery one day at a time – regrets and all. Neither the past nor the future own us. We live in today. Today is a gift. Peace.
