It’s been a while since I blogged anything at all. I have regrets about writing the memoir so early in my sobriety. I should have waited until I was 20 years sober.
The world is such a mess, both leading presidential candidates seem ancient and neither can operate a computer, so how are they running the world? Sigh, the good news is that since the US’s inception, it’s looked like a pending train wreck, but things do feel particularly bad now.
I could go on and on about politics, the divided country, the COVID-19 vaccine money/power grab, and yet I have to remember, as stated in “The Richest Man in Babylon”, the walls of Babylon are strong. Everytime I thought the society was on the brink of collapse, we shrugged it off. From 9/11 to Covid, and now Ukraine/Russia/Commander in Chief being completely an invalid, it really doesn’t matter and shouldn’t change my plans or day to day, and yet I find myself buried in Twitter day in day out waiting for horrific news to drop.
Anywho, the reason I became motivated to write something was having listened to an amazing podcast of Chuck C, author of “A New Pair of Glasses”, I found a nugget worth saving to the wisdom tree.
Chuck C knew Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous personally and stated that when he asked Bill about the difference between “character defects” and “shortcomings” Bill said they were completely interchangeable and they just wrote it as such to avoid repetition. This is hilarious, because I can’t tell you how many meetings I’ve been in that discussed this as if they were two totally different things and the amount of hand wringing and debate that has taken place over the last 100 years, while it’s completely irrelevant and meaningless.
I wonder how much wisdom has been put to paper only to be completely misinterpreted.
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