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02-21-2016, 04:10 AM | #1 | ||
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Freedom of Choice
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So many times we think it is okay to pick up something that is not our 'drug of choice' we justify our behavior not realizing that it all leads to the same soul sickness. Quote:
I can remember times in my life I didn't think I had an option. I didn't think there was an alternative. I had to have that next bite of food, I had to have that person in my life, I just had to go shopping and spend some money, it didn't matter if I had the money or not (if I didn't buy or have what I wanted, I obsessed about it until I got it be it Chinese Food, a purse, a dress, etc.) I remember telling my spiritual adviser when I quit smoking that it was either pick up a cigarette or go crazy! He said, "There was another option." I said, "What?" He said, "You could have turned it over." I responded with, "I forgot I had an option and a choice." As time goes by and I stay clean and sober, I am better able to recognize when I find myself back in that obsessive thought before it becomes a behavior. As my sponsor said, "It is a program of practice, practice, practice.
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