Hi gib,
ā¦Youāve got to know when to hold āem
Know when to fold āem
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When youāre sittinā at the table
Thereāll be time enough for countinā
When the dealinās done
Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivinā
Is knowinā what to throw away
And knowinā what to keep
'Cause every handās a winner
And every handās a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die
in your sleepā¦
The Gambler
On that note, this will be my last post in here to you at least for some time. I did not want to simply ignore your latest post to me altogether. Perhaps sometime after your magical day, I shall return.
My main reason for being in here was to help you a bit, giving you some feedback, and trying to persuade you that going to AA meetings could ALSO be beneficial to you along with others things which you have decided to do after the magical date of July 1st.
I do not believe that we can go any further than we have. I think that to do so would simply be a study in redundancy at least on my side.
I have found a hyperlink which I think is pretty unbiased insofar as the pros and the cons and the in-betweens go of AA. Anyway, the bottom line here is that you do what you feel best serves you but I would consider all that the hyperlink presents.
scientificamerican.com/arti ā¦ mous-work/
The below is also an interesting article and it speaks to me (but that is just me). I think that it is a good thing to be reminded that we are not always seeing the other guyās or girls point of view (as perhaps I was not so much seeing in your view of AA), that we (universally speaking) are not responding in a way that is more balanced and mutually beneficial to both sides. It is a really good read. I think that for the most part we realize these things but it is good to be reminded of them.
The hyperlink is in a way in response to what you wrote here:
psychologytoday.com/us/blog ā¦ d-yourself
So, I do wish you well, gib, and come July 1st, I hope that you will be doing everything in your power to work on conquering and transcending your addictions. It is a process and I think that you ARE up to the task.
Carpe Diem but not all at once nor too tightly.