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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
No Perfect People
We may have spent much time and energy looking for perfect people to fulfill our lives. This process involves projecting our fond illusions onto those we meet, building them up way out of reality, and then being terribly disillusioned when extended and intimate acquaintance proves them to be just ordinary people.
Accepting our friends and family for what they are rather than what we idealize them to be is part of growing up emotionally. It is our own weakness and insecurity that causes us to try to make gods out of other people. As we learn to accept ourselves as less than perfect, we are able to reduce the unreasonable demands we make on others. As we come to know our Higher Power, we do not need to make gods out of fellow human beings.
By not expecting perfection from others, we can love them as they are, encouraging their strengths and supporting their weaknesses.
I pray for the emotional maturity to accept myself and those I love.
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Had the thought today about how much of recovery is working on the emotions, and how we deal with them in healthy ways, without using food and other substances to deal with them. Not only about using food, but not substituting other things, that lead to another state of obsessive, compulsive behaviour.