“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.”
C.S. LEWIS
wow, the importance of a daily housecleaning. i know for me there are times that i go off tilt . and most of the time it just comes out of the blue. like yelling at the guy that cut me off on the way home or getting upset because the lady in front of me at the checkout stand wanted a price check after i had been standing in line behind her for a half hour. its at that moment i know its time to step back and take a minute or two, because apperantly i've missed something in the course of my day. usually something small, and usually it was something that didn't go the way i wanted or thought it should go. either way self was usually involved. i know that i still have character defects that i am working on. this daily inventory helps me with that. it shines the light in on those cellar rats.i'm grateul that my recovery
is just as progressive as my desiese was.
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