Post by caressa on Nov 15, 2011 1:37:24 GMT -5
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We not only attempt geographical 'cures' while drinking, but often while clean and sober too. When you make a move 'for the better,' unless you can honestly say you are running to something positive, then you are running from something that you haven't faced.
No matter how fast or how far I go, I can't outrun myself.
I was thinking of this earlier today. Not so much geographical but an avoidance of what I needed to address by picking up a book or being on my computer, which in a way, is a geographical cure. They allow me to transport myself to somewhere else, other than the reality of day, or take up the empty space in my head, often with nothingness if I am just playing Bejeweled2.
Geographical doesn't have to be a physical move, our disease is mental, emotional and spiritual too.
I have been sitting here posting and listening to music. I keep telling myself I need to go to bed, only had 5 hours sleep since noon the day before yesterday. They started playing some Christmas music and I was enjoying it, and shut off the thought of sleep. I signed out of a couple of other sites because I had a head ache, and here am again posting, when I should be sleeping. Duh!!!
We not only attempt geographical 'cures' while drinking, but often while clean and sober too. When you make a move 'for the better,' unless you can honestly say you are running to something positive, then you are running from something that you haven't faced.
No matter how fast or how far I go, I can't outrun myself.
I was thinking of this earlier today. Not so much geographical but an avoidance of what I needed to address by picking up a book or being on my computer, which in a way, is a geographical cure. They allow me to transport myself to somewhere else, other than the reality of day, or take up the empty space in my head, often with nothingness if I am just playing Bejeweled2.
Geographical doesn't have to be a physical move, our disease is mental, emotional and spiritual too.
I have been sitting here posting and listening to music. I keep telling myself I need to go to bed, only had 5 hours sleep since noon the day before yesterday. They started playing some Christmas music and I was enjoying it, and shut off the thought of sleep. I signed out of a couple of other sites because I had a head ache, and here am again posting, when I should be sleeping. Duh!!!
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.