It’s astounding what won’t kill you. It’s ALL on the menu. I am constantly dumbstruck by just how much we can take and keep going.
We don’t get to keep going as the person we were before the wound, but we get to be the person who lives with it. Sometimes, we keep going only because we have a duty to those we love and who love us.
The world owes us nothing, we owe the world everything.
Despair not, young Dad. Keep forth thy writing, with vigor. Nay, with supernatural ferocity! (I love speaking in a Shakespearean tone of voice. Pompous and humorous all at once.) Seriously, there aren’t a lot of empty seats on the “being a good Dad” struggle bus. Lots of us are living vicariously through your voice. Looking forward to your next post.
In AA, I learned two phrases that prefaced the dark fogs (and there were so many more in the early sober years, than ever there was in the 15 drinking years).
I’ll let them ‘speak’ for themselves:
“Get up, get dressed, show up.”
and
“When you don’t want to go to another meeting, go to another meeting.”
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Your Beloved, your kids, your waking Self ..are graced with your person; you’re needed there and when you show up there, your ‘cord’ is reinforced, pulling you forward…never separating you.
It’s astounding what won’t kill you. It’s ALL on the menu. I am constantly dumbstruck by just how much we can take and keep going.
We don’t get to keep going as the person we were before the wound, but we get to be the person who lives with it. Sometimes, we keep going only because we have a duty to those we love and who love us.
The world owes us nothing, we owe the world everything.
Despair not, young Dad. Keep forth thy writing, with vigor. Nay, with supernatural ferocity! (I love speaking in a Shakespearean tone of voice. Pompous and humorous all at once.) Seriously, there aren’t a lot of empty seats on the “being a good Dad” struggle bus. Lots of us are living vicariously through your voice. Looking forward to your next post.
Wonderful!
In AA, I learned two phrases that prefaced the dark fogs (and there were so many more in the early sober years, than ever there was in the 15 drinking years).
I’ll let them ‘speak’ for themselves:
“Get up, get dressed, show up.”
and
“When you don’t want to go to another meeting, go to another meeting.”
~~
Your Beloved, your kids, your waking Self ..are graced with your person; you’re needed there and when you show up there, your ‘cord’ is reinforced, pulling you forward…never separating you.
Wonderful.
So good, and so timely. Thanks!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kurios_rough-day-feeling-a-tinge-under-the-weather-activity-7261856121756237824-vIp7
Wonderful!
Great advice! Energizing as always.
Wonderful!
And thank you! So very much!