Changing the person I can
Feeling a bit better than the other day. I realize that there is nothing I can do to change my SIL and that she really does need help. Why should I beat myself up when I do everything I can to change the one person I can...ME. I go to my Al-Anon meetings and I do what I can to be the best person I can be, and I do see the changes I have made and am pretty happy with who I am. I can't change other people, places or things. It does not mean I have to be a doormat, but it does mean that I can choose the battles I am willing to fight. I choose happiness and serenity today. I choose to take control of my life, and let other people live their own lives. I can be right, or I can be happy. Happiness is an inside job. I don't have to be right when it comes to others choices, but I can choose to do differently myself. So, not playing into my SIL crisis gives me the respect to choose, and to be happy in my own life. I thank all of you for letting me rant the other day and giving such solid experience, strength and hope. I am not perfect, and that is why I have to keep learning. Don't we all? I may never be perfect, I am sure of that fact, but I do know that I am doing something right.
Love,
Aly
Love,
Aly