My disease tells me that my life would be so much better if people would only do what I tell them to do. If they would listen to me, I could solve all their problems, fix their lives, and everybody would be happy. Why can't they see that our relationships would be better if they'd just do what I say, and not what I do? Don't they realize that I know more about how to run their lives than they do?

Well, luckily for the people in my life, this disease lies. I DON'T know what's best for them. Because I have a disease of compulsion, I don't even know what's best for me. If I did know, then my life wouldn't have been in the shambles it was in before I found the Twelve Steps of recovery.

I had to come to the realization that my life had become unmanageable. Only then could I find a Higher Power to restore sanity to the crazy drama that had become my life, and to grant me the serenity that accompanies the sanity.

Now I realize that the only person I can control is me. I can't make other people change into what I want them to be and I can't make them do what I think is best for them. Since I've begun letting my Higher Power restore me to sanity, I don't want to be a control freak any longer. I can't even fathom trying to run another person's life. I have enough on my hands living my own; I don't have the strength, the knowledge or the wisdom to live someone else's. I will always be grateful to my Higher Power for helping me to realize that.

One Day at a Time . . .
I will live my own life,
and allow others to live theirs.

~ Jeff ~

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