You don’t have to accomplish anything to be fulfilled. What’s necessary is a simple shift in perspective from thinking that specific requirements need to be met before you can feel good, to one in which you are willing to feel good no matter what. You make the transition by accepting this moment exactly as it is.
Will you?
Steve and Jarl
It must be entirely fear that has made us all control freaks. Acceptance is of course a big thing in alcohol recovery, too, and the difficulty about that is a thorny piece of socialization indeed. “Let go and let God ..” “Oh, but wait ..!”