Today at my morning meeting topic was from today's daily reflections namely self pity. I've had enough self pity in the last 14 days to go around this whole site and share it with all of you equally. Today I'm not in my pity pot. I asked God to be divorced from self pity when down on my knees this morning. My current situation was a lot of my own making. I will clean my side of the street and not be concerned with the other persons street it's none of my business. Today I'm accepting of what's going on today and still hold onto hope. There are a lot of what ifs and YETS. But I don't have the little devil on my shoulder saying "what do I do, what go I do ." Well wright now I do nothing but take care of myself and love myself today.
"Selfishness self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kill us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to. Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own power. We had to have God's help. "
