When the world 🌎 hands you 🍋s -you hand them back 🍒s. That’s just exactly what “THE ROCK” did with his son out on the street speaking about getting embarrassed. Can’t think of a better way to deescalate!

You show people a little bit of who you are they show you a little bit of who they are… Rocky Balboa “The scene when first meeting Steps”.

Certain words when used in conversation can be construed as demeaning -wirds like “little” or… I’d have to review some of my conversations in real time in order to come up with a couple more at least. Sorry bout that 😬

Relationships require a lot of energy some of us don’t have to spare -and some of us are unwilling despair.

Some people have a gift for bringing others down – While others seem to make it a point of bringing other people up Rocky seemed to carry that trait with him throughout his life Sadly though, some of us don’t seem to have a gift, nor a thought -one way or the other.

Compliment often! I started noticing years ago that people never complimented -ncluding myself. So then, I started doing so. Then one day, I started noticing I was the only one doing so. 🙃

I tried to take people when is it time -but for example, when you’re dealing with a particular race we who exhibits a rather undesirable trait repeatedly… 🤔

I never knew there was such a thing as being too nice -but apparently, that sits a lot of people on their heels.

I’ve suffered a lot of losses these past for 5 years here’s-which is not unusual for my age I suppose.The few personal relationships I have seem to require more of me than of them (their own willingness… 🤷‍♂️) -if they are to work 😔

When I talk to my family, I almost have to make them look good, or make me look worse, to do otherwise would set off a rebellion… but at the same time, I can’t reach them and I can’t attend is it attain the kind of relationship I want to have with them until they are willing to look at themselves.

When you get better and the people around you don’t type and it creates a chasm. This leads to sadness and in some cases depression. Depression-anger turned inward?

When I first got sober, and would walk into a store and then walk out without anything -I would be nervous as hell-flashbacks from my days of shop lifting. When I got my 1st car in recovery, I felt very nervous around police for a long time – After all, if they say you did it you did it right? And usually, it’s your freedom,, or your money they want.

I got a boatload of life handed to me early on -and at 57, I’m a tad 😩 weary!

Sidenote: I never had an issue with the 4th step as long as I could get you to share in the blame -but where it was all me…

I wanted to do God’s job and I wanted him to do mine.

“What I thought were my defects, turned out to be assets -what I thought were my assets, turned out to be my defects.

The Police are well behind the curve on crime in this city.

Family

I remember my aunt telling me 2 things. One more recently calm of the other some 15 or 20 years ago:

•The more recent one, I’m not the kind of person to sit there and hold your hand and listen to your problems….

•The 1 from 15 or 20 years ago, I’m not the type of person to go around visiting. This was into response to me telling her one day, you never come to my house.

Put your trust in God. My problem is this, what if you want somebody to break into my house and rob me??

The mind can overcome all kinds of ills – Especially the ones in the mind. Or perhaps with tthe exception of those in the mind.

THE 🌎 IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE CARRYING THE ACCUMULATION OF THEIR LIFE’S EXPERIENCES -MANY OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN ADDRESSED ADEQUATELY!*

Sidenote: You only have to go through your life once with the 12 steps -unless of course 🤔 you choose to repeat those same mistakes over (and over, and over, and over) again.

*We have varying abilities to adequately process our life experiences -where our limitations are reached, we must reach out for help! Otherwise… our lives, our growth is limited to our limitations, to our acceptance of… our failure to push beyond those limitations.

We can, or will, only go as far as we can see.

Many people lack 😪 the ability to significantly care who they hurt.*

*The hardest thing in the 🌎 for many-aperson is to “CARE”**.

**Care about those things they SHOULD, but DON’T!

What/Who man likes -is not (always) a reliable indicator of what is beneficial, what is best for him!

For the remainder of your natural-life; slowly (or quuckly) transition less from what you want to do to more of what you should do. [Concious effort; discipline; new way of thinking; new-found love for…].

Be open to everything -EXCEPT 😈

OPENNESS IS EVERYTHING

FOCUS IS THE ONLY THING

Remain flexible; Remain teachable.

What you focus on ‐you give power to!

“The bitch about recovery is -having to work a program in a 🌎 that doesn’t have one”. -TAMMY-

Trust in God; Clean house; Work with others. -AA ROOMS-

“Forgive yourself; Don’t have expectations of others; Look for what you can contribute to life -not what you can take away from it”. -GRANVILLE AA Sponsor (1938-2018)-

That which doesn’t come natural -requires a conscious effort 👌

That which once felt natural, but due to circumstances beyond our control, FEELS COMPLETELY UNNATURAL -requires a conscious effort 👌

…AND TRUSTING IS NO EXCEPTION!

“The less one owns 🤔 -the more one tends to appreciate!”

AND

“The less one owes 🤔 -the more one tends to appreciate!”

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For me, writing ✍ and photography 📷 share two very special things in common:

1.God’s beauty in the world, God’s truth in the words!

2. You write, or take pictures long enough, and every once in a while something very special appears.

When the situation is right, when what we are called upon to do is right, and we don’t feel right -WE MUST CHANGE!