There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as
gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react,
deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't
decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.


Being the victim is, or was, uncomfortably familiar to many of us.
Perhaps some of us are only now realizing we have choices, that we
need not let life happen to us. Becoming responsible to ourselves,
choosing behavior, beliefs, friends, activities, that please us,
though unfamiliar at first, soon exhilarates us. The more choices we
make, the more alive we feel. The more alive we feel, the healthier
our choices.

Our aim is recovery. Recovering means participating fully in our
lives. It means self-assessment and self-direction. It means trusting
to move forward, step-by-step, choice-by-choice, knowing all the while
that no thoughtful action can trouble us.

Many opportunities to make choices will present themselves today. The
choices I make will satisfy me; they will move me toward my goal of
recovery.

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