Many of us who are people living in one day at a time recovery know people who in our knowledge have never fallen. This is how we create legends in our hopeful and hoping realities of recovery. We always seem to look up to these people with our innocent longings of how could we be like them. In reality we just haven’t been around them long enough to see them when they did fall. Their fall is the reason they are in recovery. They too had hit a bottom but of course we excuse them because at the time of their bottom they like us knew no better. This is the distortion found in the false experiences in our minds. You see – they were just like us. They too were human. What we need to realize is we all had to and have to pay our dues. Just like them our pain is real. When we learn this we learn how to give ourselves grace. The tree that hasn’t fallen doesn’t exist. We all belong. Peace.
