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bikerbill


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.....just had a long chat with one of my civvy buddies. His wife died 4 years ago and he just found an old letter she wrote him several years ago and read a bit out to me.

She said'.....and the worst place to live is on a pedestal.'

Blew me away.



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Living in denial would be pretty bad too. (or it was bad)

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denial? Oh I don't know, I hear North Africa is very pretty at this time of year.

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Wow!  That speaks volumes Bill.  Nothing woarse for an Alcoholic than to spend to much time up on The Pedestal.  Thanks for the reminder today.



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Yeah, I get that. My first husband put me on a pedestal, and I never could live up to the fantasy, this perfect woman he wanted me to be. I wanted acceptance and love of me, the real me as I really am. Unfortunately, in my drunken, effed up mind-frame I couldn't truly BE me. Only in sobriety through AA have I learned how to start to be the me my God wants me to be...and I will never be better than or less than anyone else, only equal. I don't want the pedestal, thanks. I want the seat next to my friends on the bus, in the middle of the bus driven by God on this spiritual journey to freedom from alcohol and alcoholic thinking.

Who's comin with me!?! :) Heather

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Wow, this message brought back a line from an old film, a later version, but was in circulation in the late 80s. "The Razor's Edge" is th title.

 Anyway, Bill Murrey left home, to go live in India on top of a mountain, to study with a Guru, "To Find Himself"  you saw him there, all alone, on this freezing mountain top, hands bleeding from the cold, and his Prayer Book, and only a tiny fire only to catch the writings in the Prayer Book.....he finally gave this adventure up, telling his Guru that led him back to travel back home, his words to his Guru as they chartered the freezing waters in this tiny little boat...."It is much more difficult to live life, in the reality of what is going on in my own real world that it is to ever be a "Holy Man" living alone on top of a mountain"....

Sort of relates to this message....

Thanks Bill for the Post.

Hugs, Toni


 



-- Edited by Just Toni on Tuesday 12th of April 2011 07:50:42 PM

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bikerbill wrote:

.....just had a long chat with one of my civvy buddies. His wife died 4 years ago and he just found an old letter she wrote him several years ago and read a bit out to me.

She said'.....and the worst place to live is on a pedestal.'

Blew me away.

          She said'.....and the worst place to live is on a pedestal.'

          Amen...

 



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