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Saturday, November 14, 2009

It's okay to not like everyone in Al-Anon

I went to our district Al-Anon gratitude dinner tonight. Nice to see old faces I had'nt seen in a long while. Not so nice to see a few faces I dislike. I have finally realized this year, since my mother's death that it is perfectly acceptable to dislike people in my fellowship.

I use to think I was a selfish sinner for not liking everyone. The people pleaser in me. Not anymore. These people have hurt me, never took responsiblity nor made any amends. So, I do not have to act all lovely dovely. As I was manning the greeting table, for folks to sign in and get a name tag with another memember, some of these people I dislike arrived to sign in. I said nothing, they said nothing. No *fakery* on either side. I felt liberated! I felt like I was honoring my feelings and not having to fake it.

For this people pleaser, that was a great triumph!

1 comments:

steveroni said...

Yes Chris, none of us has to eat shit--if we do it's because we have learned to like the taste!
Ummmm!

PEACE!