Getting Honest

[caressa]

I play the ball from where it lies - not where I wish it was.

- Arnold Palmer.

From AlkieSpeaks

How many of us wish we had done something with our lives much earlier than we did. How many of us went to that first meeting and didn't identify for ourselves.

I only played golf twice. I remember thinking that I was entitled to a few quirks and remember kicking a ball out of a rough ever so gently and dropping a few strokes off my game when I missed the ball completely.

When I came to recovery, I had to get honest. I had to look at my life for what it was not as I would have it be. I could no longer justify or rationalize my behavior and had to take responsibility for my own actions.

Many times I wanted to be other than where I was. I realized that I was where I was at as a result of decision and actions made in the past. What goes around comes around, and that is why I try to make healthy choices in today.

How many times I said, "Well I am not as bad as him or her." When I get as bad as 'them' I will do something with my life. Comparing instead of identifying kept me sick for a long time.

Self-honesty means seeing yourself in others and admitting that you too have the same problem. It takes one to know one.

[justjo]

"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book

Walk on soles, not on souls.

How often we think we are doing good. We are doing what they tell us to do, but instead of going out there and carrying the message to others, we run rough shod over new souls and tell them what to do. When they look back, do they see us practicing wha we preach. Are we trying to put ouf feet in the path that they logged to find the doors of recovery.

Getting honest! Looking within ourselves and seeing the true self.

[majestyjo]

A couple of good remember whens. Honesty is nothing unless it is self-honesty.

[caressa222]

Honesty is the best policy. Now I don't have to remember which lie I told who.

I can now honestly say, "I forgot."