THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
You are, you are, you are. How many times have you heard about what, who, how YOU ARE? How many years have you allowed other people, society to define your being? Being in recovery gives you the opportunity to drop what you have been told you are and start defining YOURSELF. You are more than the lists and lists of apparent defects you have. You are more than any label that has been strategically pasted to you…drug addict, alcoholic, over eater, gambler, co-dependent, adult child of an alcoholic. You are more than troublesome, selfish, traumatised, depressed, bipolar, anxious. Underneath the layers and layers of sticky labels there’s this pure human being, with the potential to light up the world with your gifts and talents. This person that you are is unadulterated, has choice, can be free. If you didn’t have those labels who would you be? When you stop running from yourself who are you? Imagine! I am…….I am…….I am……..
Nicola x
3 Comments
Very thought provoking. I’ve actually been asking myself that question over and over just recently. Who am I? I am tired of worrying about what other people think I should be doing, or should have done. I am a beautiful spirit, a compassionate woman, a loving person, a writer, a poet, creative and wonderfully me. Now I just have to let that come from my intellect into my heart so I can truly believe it. Only then will I find out the rest of who I really am. I am me looking for me. Everyday I am something else.
I am who I am and that is all I am, Over the years I have grown in many ways by having the A A program and continued sobriety.When I became sober, the Good Lord touched me with his finger of LOVE and left a finger print no one has been able to rub of.
Nicola,
This is very well said, it is so easy for someone to believe they are what people label them as. I for one had this problem, especially in early recovery. Many people labeled me a drug addict and with that label assumed I would always be troublesome and problematic. I had to do a lot of soul searching to realize that there was more potential in me, and going to meetings helped me see this. After I got clean I decided to go back to college and I earned my bachelor’s degree. I am now working my first job with my degree and love what I do, I also have responsibilities at my job that helps me realize others see my true potential and not just some problematic drug addict.