This disease distorts the reasoning of all around me. Because we’re trying so hard to hide the pain of watching ourselves and  those we love become mired in the disease and losing our grip on our own happiness, we use our thinking to twist and bend the truth into a more palatable shape. We rationalize and deny what is right in front of us, make excuses and sometimes lie because it makes us feel better than to admit the truth. The alcoholic lies to hide their uses and abuses, the family members lie to hide  the extent of addiction and their fear, pain and confusion. Pretty soon, our thinking becomes so filled with denial and rationalization that we lose our own sense of what is normal. Eventually our sense of reality becomes distorted. Today, I am willing to live life on life’s terms, not mine. I am able to tolerate the truth because I know that I have a program, I have accepted the things I cannot change and changed the things I can.

 I am willing to live with the truth rather than lies

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

African Proverb