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There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
--Merle Shain

Being the victim is, or was, uncomfortably familiar to many of us. Perhaps some of us are only now realizing we have choices, that we need not let life happen to us. Becoming responsible to ourselves, choosing behavior, beliefs, friends, activities, that please us, though unfamiliar at first, soon exhilarates us. The more choices we make, the more alive we feel. The more alive we feel, the healthier our choices.

Our aim is recovery. Recovering means participating fully in our lives. It means self-assessment and self-direction. It means trusting to move forward, step-by-step, choice-by-choice, knowing all the while that no thoughtful action can trouble us.

Many opportunities to make choices will present themselves today. The choices I make will satisfy me; they will move me toward my goal of recovery.

You posted this on purpose didn't you!?!

I concur...I have not lost a baseball bet in a while. I'm hot babyee....I mean hot...I was 17-1 last month with my gambling ventures...baseball games are pretty true to their percentages..and I know when to go against them when the juice will pay out 3-1.

Gosh do I feel alive...explains my hot streak and why I was able to come home to America for a visit. I just may go to the casino tonight and put the house down on the Red Sox...I'm hot babyee...it's a lock

Far better to stand on ones feet facing life in the face than crawling on ones hands and knees waiting for an impending hammer blow to fall.

I face live on my feet looking towards the sun.What life will bring me i have no idea, and i will face whatever life throws at me with zeal and and a daily increase in appetite.