People who live in one day at a time recovery know that pride can get in the way of growth. If we don’t know this, we haven’t payed attention. Many of us know that pride can hamper our ability to accept, or to adapt, to a variety of circumstance and changes in life. Sometimes we still let pride take the lead in our decision making. Experience lets us recognize this, but often our ego will tell us we cannot be wrong. When pride is in the driver’s seat the ego is riding shotgun and co-pilot at the same time. This is when pride gets in the way. We become unteachable. Then reality sets in and teaches us a lesson. We put pride in the back seat and we fire the ego. We listen to those who can teach us. Then we are teachable and we learn life by living life one day at a time.
