Day 243
This thought is something of a follow-up to yesterday's entry. Does the question that I previously asked about helping others have more to do with helping myself, and through that helping others? Maybe.
It may be more than maybe.
There is a lot to parse in the nuances that swirl around this question. For example, where is the line between giving children too much freedom and not giving them enough? I'd say that this is a simple equation of balance, but parents — broken ones and healthy ones — have exhausted themselves with both the effort and the "results" of that teeter-totter.
Similarly, that magical line between keeping my sins to myself and using my failings to help others is likely to be judged only by how things work out, which might not be sufficient data due to the many variables in peoples' lives.
A big part of my decision to seek recovery is the idea that a healthy me will make me a better man, a better husband, a better father, a better son, and just a better person. That will still be true, regardless of the impact my well-intentioned sharing may have on others.
–JR
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