Sunday, December 27, 2015

BEING RIGHT:


Recovery is about allowing ourselves to be who we are
and accepting others as they are.

That concept may be difficult for some of us if we have
lived in systems that function on the "right-wrong" principle.
The person who was right was okay; the person who was
wrong was not okay. Value and worth may have depended
on being right; to be wrong meant annihilation of self and
self-esteem.

We are learning how to strive for love in our relationships,
not superiority. Yes, we may need to make decisions about
people's behavior from time to time. If someone is hurting
us, we need to stand up for ourselves. We have a responsibility
to take care of ourselves. But we do not need to justify taking
care of ourselves by condemning someone else. We can avoid
the trap of focusing on others instead of ourselves.

We are learning that what we do needs to be right only for us.
What others do is their business and needs to be to be right
only for them. It's tempting to rest in the superiority of being
right and in analyzing other people's motives and actions.

Web Stores:

 

No comments:

About Me