Revenge ðŸ˜
"You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still a lot of good in the world."
—"The Outsiders"
> 35,000 decisions | the daughter paradox
After achieving sobriety from alcohol or drugs, someone will most certainly still call you an asshole at some time during the remainder of your life.
Probably many times. From within your family. Even your daughter.
They’ll say you’re a worse person, not a better person.
- They'll say you're unfeeling.
- They'll hurt you for revenge.
They'll say you sleep too much. They'll say you don't go to bed early enough. They'll say you don't go to church often enough. They'll say you don’t love enough or listen enough.
They'll call you selfish and lazy.
For each of these words, there are roughly 8.1 billion interpretations worldwide.
And none of them are the truth.
None of these millions upon millions of interpretations of laziness and selfishness can be called the universal truth about anything or anyone.
They're subjective truthinesses and constructs that can live only in our heads.
It's your program of recovery from addiction. The second we allow it to belong to other people is the second we become vulnerable to relapse.
Say you told the kids you were getting sober for them.
Relapse is common in addiction. You'd hate yourself even more than you did when your addiction was active.
- next time "He does something most people never will."
- listening Dead Kennedys "Kill the Poor"
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