Part of taking responsibility for your choices is being honest with yourself first and then honest with others around you. The honest part seems to be the hardest thing to tackle when you have become accustomed during your addiction to hide everything with lies. Part of taking responsibility of ones choices is taking owner ship of the choices made in ones life. Ultimately, our choices in life are just that – OUR choices and no one else’s regardless if they are good or bad. It is easy to point fingers blaming others for our bad choices in life and only taking ownership of the good. By staying honest with yourself in your recovery, you can make healthier choices. If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no way you can be honest with others. Taking responsibility for your choices in life becomes a much easier thing to do if those choices can be backed up by the fact that you were just being true to yourself.
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I am responsible for my own choices should be a life lesson taught early in grade school. I think a lot of people would be a lot better off if they didn't waste so much time and energy blaming someone else for the way they turned out.
ReplyDeleteWhat a unique concept, but I doubt it will catch on. People enjoy blaming others for their short comings and I don't expect that to change any time soon.
ReplyDeleteYou know Sharon, I have to agree with you and I wonder why that is. We have a generation of young people who always have someone they can blame for the short comings in their lives.
ReplyDeleteWhat most people fail to see, or seem to forget, that when you point one finger to someone else, the other three are pointing to the real problem.
ReplyDeleteI always try, but occasionally I find myself blaming someone else. I might even believe it for a minute or two. But, eventually, I put the blame where it belongs.
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