Many people who are living in one day at a time recovery understand and believe that when they were using they were like children who thought that they had complete control of their sandbox. What we did not understand was our sandbox was in complete control of us. Our sandbox dictated as to who we would let play with us. Besides this we had no other thoughts than we always needed to be in our sandbox. Even when we were longing to be elsewhere or anywhere besides our sandbox we could not because our sandbox was the only place we were comfortable. Even when other children were going to school we stayed behind and our natural development simply wasn’t happening. Others had to intervene rescuing us from an unnatural dependence. We began to understand the reality of the other. We stopped playing in our sandbox becoming healthy one day at a time. When we realized the importance of our intervention we became grateful. Now we could develop naturally. We rested in the arms of hope. Peace.
