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Unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in this world, as to what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes. ∼Dr. Paul O.

Our relationships with husbands, wives, and children; our extended family and friends; and our employers, employees, and co-workers are those that cause us the most pain in the world. Why? Because we want them to do things our way, live according to our standards, and do what we think is right. Rather than accept that others might have their own way of doing things, their own standards, and live by what they think is right, we judge them as being wrong if they don’t do what we have in mind. Many a sponsor has seen a sponsee struggling with the inability to accept what is going on in their life. One of the first questions they ask is, “Who is not doing things your way today?”

By accepting life on life’s terms, I can accept

the people in my life on their terms,

and find happiness.

Am I willing to accept mistakes, my own and others', as part of being human?

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 52