Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   January 27                                      Learning how to live again

       "We learn new ways to live.  We are no longer limited to our old
                                   ideas."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 56

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   We may or may not have been taught right from wrong and other basics of
   life as children.  No matter, by the time we found recovery, most of us
   had only the vaguest idea of how to live.  Our isolation from the rest of
   society had caused us to ignore basic human responsibilities and develop
   bizarre survival skills to cope with the world we lived in.

   Some of us didn't know how to tell the truth;  others were so frank we
   wounded everyone we talked to.   Some of us couldn't cope with the
   simplest of personal problems, while others attempted solving the problems
   of the whole world.   Some of us never got angry, even when receiving
   unfair treatment;  others busily lodged complaints against everyone and
   everything.

   Whatever our problems, no matter how extreme, we all have a chance in
   Narcotics Anonymous to learn how to live anew.  Perhaps we need to learn
   kindness and how to care about others.  Perhaps we need to accept personal
   responsibilities.  Or maybe we need to overcome fear and take some risks.
   We can be certain of one thing:  Each day, simply by living life, we'll
   learn something new.

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   Just for today:  I know more about how to live than I did yesterday, but
   not as much as I'll know tomorrow.  Today, I'll learn something new.