...it dies.
Pretty simple, right?
I am far from a perfect person, manager, father, and husband...very far. Yet, I don't think I'm a total F-up.
I have issues...a few? Many? Too many? Hell...I don't know.
But what I do know, is that eventually I will wise up, become enlightened, realize, grow up...whatever...and will begin to address and resolve my issues.
All at once? No. Methodically, one at a time.
It's already started. I have removed a major source of strife in my relationships...that is World of Warcraft. I stated to my guild when I left...
"I have become a statistic, one of the fools that is ridiculed on the forums and talked about in articles."
The game is off my laptop. I no longer have access to my characters.
I feel this was a significant event to come to grips with my obsessive compulsive behavior (diagnosed), and was a bit of a shock to most I know. Others, dismissed it as no big deal.
No water? Dead plant.
This was an addiction, not lethal as are some, but destructive. Will something else take its place? That's up to me. If my addiction were to working out or cleaning house...I highly doubt there would have ever been a problem with my relationships...I guess I picked the wrong thing.
Are a few words of encouragement too much to ask for? Or even acknowledgement?
A watered plant will flourish and bloom.
I have a lot of work to do. I have more issues to contend with.
All I need is a drink now and then.
Posted by mrchipper at September 14, 2008 02:52 PM