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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   >Tang wrote:   
   >> awaken21 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Not really. It's mostly habit. More like an addiction than a choice you   
   make willingly.   
   >>   
   >> But if you don't take responsibility for yourself,   
   >> who will do it for you?   
      
   Names of one's higher power vary.   
      
   Some may identify with being one's own.   
   Some may identify with being one's lower.   
      
   ID cards vary.   
      
   Some identify with being both, their   
   so-called higher and lower selves.   
      
   Some identify with being neither.   
      
   The question of who   
   arises at times as a question of sorts.   
      
   What, is another ion of a quest   
   in a making of paths taken one may embark on.   
      
   >> Nobody else can offload   
   >> your suffering from you and suffer it in your   
   >> stead. Ditto with all addictions, physical or   
   >> mental. The buck stops here, that is the   
   >> beginning of the road to salvation. It has to   
   >> start somewhere. Such is your choice.   
   >   
   >Habits are choices you have made, and to permit them to continue is   
   >likewise a choice.   
      
   Until being sick and tired of being sick and tired, a bottom is not   
   a bottom sufficient enough, for some addicts, to be able.   
      
   Inertia is the mother of how many things go.   
      
   A difference between being an addict like me   
   and being a real addict can be more than one of degree.   
      
   I have always been able to make up my mind. To stop.   
   And when I return, to fall back in to a habit of sorts.   
      
   A real Scotsman says and does various things.   
   A really real addict does too. Who is at the helm varies.   
      
   Some forms of insanity are called disorders   
   when they are beyond the control of choice-making.   
      
   An allergy is not something one might choose to have.   
   Yet, knowing, and accepting, one is allergic to something   
   one may very well do one's best to avoid that thing.   
      
   Peanuts, shell fish, beer here, says the vendor   
   in the stands at the b'all-game and then the one who has   
   an allergy to such items gets to make a choice.   
      
   Until one awakens to how one is, one has no choice.   
   The addict says, I'll take two of everything.   
      
   And then, another cycle begins.   
      
   Eventually, for the real addict, a reversal occurs.   
   Techniques vary in recovery for many.   
   For those who are in what is   
   called, recovery, by sum.   
      
   What works, works, but not always.   
   Relapse is an all too often reality in total.   
      
   Then, how and why, it works can be rationalized   
   by those with such a mind, to give back, to trudge,   
   and continue helping others who cannot help   
   themselves until they can.   
      
   - fwiw   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)