Right Here! Right Now!

The Here and the Now.

The question I have to ask myself frequently is this: how are things right now? At this particular minute in time how am I doing? Not how am I feeling -- how am I doing? This is a doing program, not a feeling program. Nobody really cared how I was feeling when I began my journey in recovery. They knew that I wasn't feeling too good. I wasn't supposed to be feeling too good. I was a selfish, self-centered asshole. That's why I wasn't feeling good about myself. And I wasn't doing anything about it except sitting around and complaining or continuing to engage in the behavior that made me feel bad in the first place.

I try to balance my needs with my wants. The list of my needs, regrettably, is quite short. Food in my belly, clean water to drink, and a dry, warm place to sleep. Everything else is sausage gravy. I take for granted the fact that I always have these things. Frankly, in the world today there are hundreds of millions of people who don't have these needs met on a daily basis.

Watch Oprah if you want to wallow in feelings.