Many people living in one day at a time recovery have a need to create the common enemy. It is a coping skill we develop when we are choosing to create a scapegoat or scapegoats in order that we have someone to blame for all our current, past, and future problems. It’s the reality of non-responsibility and it destroys communities and togetherness. It creates rifts and hard feelings in families. The reality of this blog is that we (people living in one day at a time recovery) are people who take responsibility for our own recovery. We do so by admitting that we are addicts and our lives are unmanageable. Addiction and its irresponsibility is a sad fact of life. There is no-one to blame. Not the government, the rich, the poor, the immigrants, the church or the powerful. Recovering people form communities and they are imperfect communities, but we help each other solve our problems. We reach out, we abstain, and we help each other. It’s called taking ownership of our lives. We’re not perfect. We know that. Nonetheless we are part of the solution. It’s called owning our reality. Peace.
