I have a sarcasm/12 Step story. A life changing (yes, really) realization.

I was, and still can be a sarcastic B! I was raised in a family that used making fun as an expression of love, or so they said. But making fun of someone to the point to tears hardly seems like fun to me. We didn't express any emotions honestly, everything was coded.

So if you can't beat them you join them, survival of the fittest. I became very good at it and thought I was hilarious, and witty but it was all a mask hiding a bunch of pain.

I was in an AlAnon meeting one day and a long-timer told a story about sarcasm, how destructive it is and how he had chosen not to use that weapon. I admired him so much I really listened and I made a choice that day.

Do I slip up? Sure. But I'm trying.
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About strengthening patience-meditation.

Last edited by labug; 08/21/14 03:52 PM.
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M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do.
I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.
Caroline Myss