People living life one day at a time know that living in recovery is reality. For some of us that reality is our mental health disorders make some aspects of life difficult. For instance when we lose our cool. Losing our cool in this case doesn’t mean we become enraged and have an angry outburst screaming loudly upsetting our whole household. The losing our cool we are talking about is something that happens to us when we get older. It’s like when we open a cap off of a jug of milk and we drop the cap and mumble not so nice words when it’s difficult to pick up. And it happens again and again. It’s when washing dishes by hand becomes a difficult task when just yesterday it was an effortless chore. And it escalates. Recovery is we lost our cool and we have to adapt. This new reality can be as frustrating as hell. So we try to be wise when we drop the milk cap and we tell ourselves we’re just stretching so we can remain flexible. There are many other ways that we can lose our cool. It is a difficult thing for people living in recovery to accept. Losing your cool is difficult for everyone. Recovery is reality. And it’s okay if it pisses us off. It’s life. Peace.
