Coming Out Of Our Shells

[roverl0616]

We're all in a defensive crouch and have been for some time that's very familiar to all of us when we first arrive at recovery, but for most of us we don't think that we're in one. Us all being that way was necessary for all of us at some point in all our lives and is what has led all of us to being in recovery. It's true though that most of us don't think that we should be here in recovery when we get here, or even that we want to be here, or that we belong. The truth is that none of us would be here in recovery unless we were supposed to be, and no one comes here by mistake. Not one of us likes being in recovery when we first get here, but in time we all find that there's no other place we would rather be, and there's nowhere else we can go. Recovery can do for all of us what none of us can do for ourselves, and coming out of our shells we'll see that there's a whole new world out there that none of us are part of, or know anything about. All of us could see that there was one but none of us knew how to live in that world. Recovery teaches us how we can if we do the things that it shows us to do, or if we like we can just stay in our shells until our time here is over, and our life has ended. The choice is all of ours to make for ourselves.