An Old Cherokee Chief was teaching his grandson about life:
“A fight is going on inside me, he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil—he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. The other is good–he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person too.“
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The Old Chief simply replied, “…The one you feed…” Well yea.
I like this story not because I agree with who it prematurely declares the winner but because it squares with what is going on with people In These Rooms and the shit going down with our inner cast of characters. I like it even though it overly moralizes our inner characters and the nature of our stories. I like it because it rightly acknowledges the relevance, the power and the conflicted dark side that enriches and humanizes the stories of my brothers and sisters in recovery. I like it because that story is all of us. We are all fighting our own battles…
“…we are all fallen, flawed and fallible. We all have our demons. We all put our pants on one leg at a time. We all sit down to shit and we all have gangster proclivities. No one is better than anyone else for everybody has some shit going on and the ground is level at the foot of the cross. We are all trying to get home the best fucking way we know how…”
Hunter
An old man was walking home late one night when he saw a friend on his knees under a streetlight, searching for something. “What are you doing?” he asked his friend.
“…I dropped the key to my house…”
“…I’ll help you look…” his friend replied.
After a few minutes of frustrated searching, the old man asked, “…Where exactly where you when you dropped this key?”
His friend pointed toward the darkness. “…Over there….”
“…Then why are you looking for it here?”
“…Because this is where the light is…”
“…Yea, the light is cool but some of the best shit that adds meaning and value to our stories, and our characters, goes down in the dark…”
Hunter
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The Struggle Continues…
