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BACK Focusing on the good, leaving the past behind My life was a chaotic mess. I went to my first Al-Anon meeting thinking that I was going to learn everything I needed to know to fix the alcoholic in a few easy steps. The last thing I wanted to hear was that I had a problem. Little did I know that a year later I would arrive at that same meeting a different, better person. I realized I had a mental obsession and it was imperative that I learn a whole new way of thinking. To this end I needed to get a Sponsor, work the Twelve Steps of Al-Anon, go to meetings, and participate in service work. It may sound daunting and hard but it was the only way, for me, to find relief and serenity. I heard someone say in a meeting that in Al-Anon we focus on the good in our lives. The good that came to me was through that spiritual awakening I had after working the Twelve Steps, and then seriously looking at my life with that new set of courageous eyes. Al-Anon has taught me how to focus on the good every day in order to move forward and keep that connection with my Higher Power. I do that by taking care of myself, disengaging from fantasy thinking, and focusing on solutions and possibilities. Working through the process of this program I found a way to live with my life—my past, my family, my experiences. I focus on the positive and move forward by accepting that what I am experiencing is part of my journey, and a lesson I need to learn. I remind myself often that responsibility is the ability to choose how to respond to people, situations, and my own feelings. If I choose not to think, I find myself reacting, being impulsive, and not taking care of myself. If I always do what I have always done, I’ll always get what I always got. Reading Conference Approved Literature, journaling, or picking up the phone to talk to an Al-Anon friend, takes me out of myself and reminds me that there are others out there with far worse problems than mine. This new perspective gives me hope, joy, the courage to change, and the freedom to choose what the changes are. I’m proud to say that now I’m working to be someone I genuinely admire, respect, encourage, and love. Now, I can live going forward, not looking back. By Killian T. The Forum, January 2010 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reprinted with permission of The Forum, Al-Anon Family Group Hdqts., Inc., Virginia Beach, VA. |
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