You Become What You Think About
Patience is wisdom. It shows that we
understand that things unfold in
their own time, not our time. You
cannot make things happen so I
just accept that fact and if I get
impatient I have learned to change
my thoughts because thoughts create
the impatience in me.
Thoughts of the past and the future
just seem to come and go at their own
pace, like I have two minds, so as soon
as I become aware of these thoughts I
can change them. Meditation really
helps me, in doing this.
The best way I can explain this, is that
I have a young daughter that hardly
will talk to me because during my
drinking with my veteran alcoholic
friends, I neglected our relationship
for years. Now that I have been sober
for a couple of months, she still has
not come around to speaking with me.
How should I feel about her emotions,
that I have no control over, mad, angry,
impatient after all, I have been sober for
sixty days. You see now I can't do
anything about the way she feels except
do the next right thing, like attempting
to call, write a letter, telling her mother
to tell her that I love her. She is in
control, I am not. So if I want to stay
a sober veteran, I accept that fact, and
know, if I am persistent and have patience
she will come around and I will stay sober
rather than start drinking and take the
road to hell again. Meditation helps me
do this, why it works, I don't know, but
then I try to keep things simple and
accept them now, I have faith.
Author: Alden Morrison
