What We All Lack
 

Two things we all lack when we are new to recovery is knowing what's best for ourselves, and a life that's worth living. These two go hand in hand. Most of us were sure we knew what we want to get out of life, and we've all been trying to get that before we got into recovery, but what none of us realize is even if we were to get that, without recovery it will be meaningless to us, and not worth having, because we'd still be missing something, but none of us know exactly what that is, or how we could get that, because none of us know what's best for ourselves. Only recovery can give that to all of us, and it only does if we want it. Recovery is that life, the one that's worth living, and all of us can have it and it's waiting for us all. All we have to do to get it is just get out of our own way and we can have it. All of us do this when we realize we don't know what's best for ourselves, and that the life we have been living before recovery has had no meaning to us. After all of us have done this is when we all find exactly what it is all of us have been lacking.