The joy of recovery is that we finally get to experiment. We get to learn new behaviors, and we don't have to do them perfectly. We only need to find a way that works for us. We even have fun experimenting, learning what we like, and how to do what we like.
Many of us have gotten into a rut with rigidity, martyrdom, and deprivation. We may hold ourselves in check so tightly that we wouldn't allow ourselves to try something fun anyway.
We can let ourselves go a little now and then. We can loosen up a bit. We don't have to be so stiff and rigid, so frightened about being who we are. Take some risks. Then, take another risk. Pick out a movie and then call a friend and invite him or her to go along. If that person says no, try someone else, or try again another time.
Decide to try something, and then go through with it. Go once. Go twice. Practice having fun until fun becomes fun.
Today, I will do something just for fun. I will practice having fun until I actually enjoy it.
Yes sir! certainly haven't spent time working recovery a day at a time to be miserable...During the "war years' didn;t think there was any joy unless getting twisted.I now know that the God of my understanding wants me to share in all the joy I can, I do practice having fun,just like a little kid before the disease took over!!I had to show up to grow up!!!
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Selfishness-self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
