Hello, world!
I guess I'll start by saying that this is my first experience in blogging. Well, correction: I wrote a guest post for Young Joe's blog once. So this is just my first experience in having my own blog. There.
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I'd like to create a statement of purpose (of sorts), more to keep me on track than to keep you interested. My goals for this project are something like this:
- Focus my posts on recovery from addiction and psychiatric treatment. Experience, strength, and hope, as they say.
- More specifically, I'd like to address less the problems that I face and more the solutions I've found work for me.
- Not devote blog posts to long-winded narratives about unrelated stuff. Especially so-and-so did such-and-such. Ugh.
- Blog at least once a week. (That sounds reasonable, right?)
- Never let blogging get in the way of things I actually have to do. I'm pretty proficient at avoiding responsibility, as you'll discover.
This is also a reasonable time to explain the title of my blog: "Better to Face the Music". As I hinted a couple sentences ago, I generally prefer ignoring the uncomfortable/unknown rather than facing it head-on. Plus I'm a music major. So "Face the Music" is totally logical. But why "Better to"?
The phrase on the title page is extracted from a letter by Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which is a pretty awesome fellowship for people with a desire to stop drinking (like yours truly). The quote is on page 251 of As Bill Sees It, which is a great collection of writings:
"[... M]aybe you are doing just what all of us have done, at one time or another: Maybe you are running away. Why don't you think that through again carefully?
"Are you really placing recovery first, or are you making it contingent upon other people, places, or circumstances? You may find it ever so much better to face the music right where you are now, and, with the help of the AA program, win through. Before you make a decision, weigh it in these terms." (emphasis mine)
I think that's sufficient for now. Rather, I hope it is--I have my psychotherapy appointment in half an hour.
More to come.
Chumz, you're awesome and I'm so excited so see what you come up with for your blog! As you put up more posts I'll be linking to them and making sure the young recovering community knows it has another strong ally. Good luck with the new semester and talk to you soon!
ReplyDeleteFear = Negative Imagination.....
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing, Miss CK!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the title...
Strange, when I was battling an eating disorder for well over two decades, what terrified me even more than DEATH was getting "caught." Now that I am in recovery, I willingly share my experience. Better to face the music, indeed.
Ah, the melody is sweet...
Devon
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ReplyDeleteA commonly repeated assertion is that 'face the music' originated from the tradition of disgraced officers being 'drummed out' of their regiment. A second popular theory is that it was actors who 'faced the music', i.e. faced the orchestra pit, when they went on stage...
ReplyDeleteBut looking at the title of this Blog, I thought of the that popular broadway song "Let's Face the Music and Dance!" As I remember the first line talks about "there may be troubles on the way," etc. but let's face the music and dance!
Thanks for sharing! I can't wait to hear more of your experience, strength, and hope!
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