Today is a gift....

[SunnyGirl]

"The clock is running. Make the most of today.
Time waits for no man.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present."

The entire quote was written in1902 in the book,
"Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights"
by Alice Morse Earle

I qualify for ACOA, but I don't post much in this section
because I don't feel I was that adversely affected by
my alcoholic father or step-fathers....

Another reason I choose not to dwell on any possible
issues I may have had, is I prefer not to look back at
the past. I have buried the past and choose not to
go back and look at the grave. I am an adult now and
have made many decisions and I am responsible for
each and everyone of them. It's been said, we learn
what we live, but that doesn't mean we have to stay
in the roll of a victim. Alcoholics do take victims, as children
we had no choice, but today I am no longer a child. I
want to live each day to the fullest and I can not do this
if I am looking at the past.

Peace on the journey, SunnyGirl

[caressa]

Ironically, it was going to ACoA that helped me out of my denial about being an alcoholic. I went to a meeting and I identified with everything in their literature. I was glad I had been to AA first or I might have stayed in my denial.

The promises say "I will not regret the past or wish to shut the door on it" and I have found that my past is part of who I am today. I needed to look at the patterns and behaviors of my past to and in the present to see what needed to be changed. Just because I had been doing it for 20-60 years didn't make it right. I do not live in the past and I do share on it with the hopes that my esh will help others. I had my first taste of alcohol at 10, but never picked it up again until I was 21. It was my childhood that molded me into the person that I am in today. My alcoholism was just compounded interest.

[majestyjo]

I see the signs in my son, and wish he was open to recovery in any Fellowship. Not sure we have an ACoA meeting in our city any more.

www.searidgealcoholrehab.com/article-adult-children-of-alcoholics.php