AA meeting

so i went to an AA meeting today. well, technically i didn't. i went to a meeting for people who treat addictions, but it was all about AA. and other things. one of them was interesting. the other one i feel asleep during and the other one was a crazy lady that was all about how to treat women with disorders, and she told all these girl jokes, and she wasn't funny, and i heard most of them before.

but the guy that i found interesting talked about a couple of things. it was basically how your spiritual health effects your recovery.

one of the points that hit me was there are people who have fear, and that is about the future. there are people with guilt, and that is about the past. but we live in the present, and to overcome those, you must be able to bring those problems to the present and figure out how to deal with them now. what someone can do now to overcome them.

he also related non-linear physics with spirituality, how physicists had to look to philosophy to explain what they observed. i was impressed.

another point he made will be better explained as an example. let's say you are up for a job promotion. you don't make it. there are two options. one, you can believe that the reason you didn't get that job was based on outside factors. this leaves your emotions to the whim of 'fate' you are not in control of your good days or bad days. the other option is to say 'i tried my best'. in this way, you are happy with the effort put forth, and your emotional state is determined internally.


(this is Saturn, the sun is behind it.)

also, isn't it good how big God is? he is HUGE. okay, bye now.