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Experience is the only teacher that gives the test first and the lesson later. ∼Collection of Eastern Wisdom Philosophy

How many times have people tried to console us by saying something like, “Well, at least you learned a good lesson?” This is a good way to frame a not-so-happy event in our lives—if we actually learn from it. Yet, if we console ourselves by saying “good lesson learned” and then moronically turn around and do it again, the lesson isn’t getting through to us. Maybe we lost a job because of chronic tardiness. If we learned the lesson, we'd get to work on time with the new job. If we didn’t learn, then we'd find new excuses for being late. Have we gotten ourselves into debt with uncontrolled spending? If we accrue credit card debt again even after refinancing the house, then we probably didn’t learn the lesson. In recovery we don’t let experience be something we get only after we need it.

I not only share my experience with others,

I share it with myself as well.

One of the things I learned was that out of all bad can come good, if we're willing to recognize the ways to make that happen.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 245