"Meditate or Medicate?"

Evening Meditation:

    I have proven to myself again and again that 'addicted to chaos' is another form of denial. Sobriety was such a rude, uncomfortable and painful awakening. My addiction wants me to continue down the familiar path of more: a rock, a hard place, trapped. Addicted to chaos? Hardly. Addicted to alcohol? Most assuredly.

    “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”

Erich Fromm

 

Question for Today:

    Which emotions get left out in the crowd and which get crowded out? Which crowd? Why?

 

from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 20)