Those of us who live in one day at a time recovery learn to let go of bad reality. Bad reality is our past struggles and pains that keep us from living in the present. These struggles and the pains grow from the harms and ill actions that we have experienced as ill people. Bad reality is a distorted reality that tells us we are not worthy of love and belonging. Perhaps we have done wrong to others, or we have had wrong done to us, and we cannot let it go and move on. Bad reality distorts the present. Those of us living in one day at a time recovery know bad reality all too well. When we reach out and talk about it bad reality stays in the past. We then learn to let it go. Some of us need medication to see a true caring and loving reality. We become aware. Many of us write focusing our thoughts on our present reality. The intrusive condition of bad reality is minimalized for many of us. We can still have bad days but we learn to let go. Now we are really living one day at a time.
