Recently, I met a new unpopular person at the recovery drop-in center, he was telling everyone that he was different and his problem was more serious than everybody. It was not his fault, it is very difficult for him to stay abstinent because everyone around him was drinking, drugging and gambling. This person simply does not want to be responsible for all the bad choices he made and blaming everyone, every place, and everything except himself. He did not want to be made accountable for his action.
I can still remember that some point in my recovery, I was also behaving like that and justifying my overeating, drinking, drugging and gambling. But today I understand that I have a choice. I can choose to “WALK AWAY”. I cannot blame people, places and things because it was my decision.
I am falling in love with these words ” carefully and slowly ” now. My favorite in early recovery used to be ” one baby step at a time.”