IT'S NOT ALWAYS A WALK IN THE PARK, BUT IT'S NEVER DULL.
I went to the other extreme in early sobriety, always having to make the day be a certain way. And then I figured out that being open and curious and spontaneous was a pretty fun way to go through life.
We don't always have to work so hard to shape and direct the day. Instead, greet the day with curiosity, fully open to what it might bring. My life in addiction was very routine: get up, get high, try to make it through the day without anyone getting in my way, black out, pass out, wake up, do it again. What passed for fun were the people, places, and things I set up to support that routine. It was a chore: a sometimes boring, but mostly frightening chore.
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