Read this when you are temped to recycle

[Depression = 72% of members]

I am at a crossroads of two streets as many of you are.  I'm tempted to go down the same one I've walked for 15 years... .it's a habit.  I know that street.  It's full of bomb-holes where landmines have gone off after I step on the triggers.  I've learned to walk around most of the old holes... .but I can't stop stepping on the seemingly unlimited triggers dammit!  I think its best to get off this roller coaster path of up/down as I go in and out of these holes, it has made me sick.  I need to be well. It's time to walk down a new street.

I read this when I'm temped to recycle.  It has been helpful to me and I want to pass it along.

If others have something similar, please share it here.

Autobiography In Five Short Chapters from "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying"

Chapter I[/b]

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost... .I am hopeless.

It isn't my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter II

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don't see it.

I fall in again.

I can't believe I am in this same place.

But it isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter III

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it there.

I still fall in... .it's a habit... .but,

my eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

Chapter IV

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.

Chapter V

I walk down another street.

- Portia Nelson

[Heartandsole]

I am at a crossroads of two streets as many of you are.  I'm tempted to go down the same one I've walked for 15 years... .it's a habit.  I know that street.  It's full of bomb-holes where landmines have gone off after I step on the triggers.  I've learned to walk around most of the old holes... .but I can't stop stepping on the seemingly unlimited triggers dammit!  I think its best to get off this roller coaster path of up/down as I go in and out of these holes, it has made me sick.  I need to be well. It's time to walk down a new street.

I read this when I'm temped to recycle.  It has been helpful to me and I want to pass it along.

If others have something similar, please share it here.

Autobiography In Five Short Chapters from "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying"

Chapter I[/b]

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost... .I am hopeless.

It isn't my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter II

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don't see it.

I fall in again.

I can't believe I am in this same place.

But it isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter III

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it there.

I still fall in... .it's a habit... .but,

my eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

Chapter IV

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.

Chapter V

I walk down another street.

- Portia Nelson

[Overbeck]

Chapter VI

She starts walking down that street and acts like her running into me is an accident.

[refusetosuccumb]

Im going to print this out. Very telling.

[Klarity Kwest]

Thank you so much for this. This should be framed.

[no_ordinary]

Chapter VI

She starts walking down that street and acts like her running into me is an accident.

haha, wow 

if she didn't replace the "loving" object... .

[maternal]

YES!

[zenwexler]

Great post! I needed this.