Damon is a 29-year-old Black bank manager. He’s been drinking since he was 16 years old and said of drinking that it had largely destroyed his life. In Damon’s In These Rooms share, he stated “… I don’t have a record. I’m not homeless. I don’t sleep under the bridge but I now understand I am an alcoholic. Alcohol has destroyed my life. It cost me everything that was important to me: my family, my children, everything but my job. I’d trade the job tomorrow to have my life and family back. I wasted years out there. I’m working this program and thanks to this program I’m not wasting time anymore…”
Promise 11 of the Big Book In These Rooms states, “…we will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us…” This intuition of Promise 11 goes down in Real Time. Real Time ain’t about the past and what we used to do. In Real time, nobody gives a damn about who we used to be. In Real Time, it doesn’t fucking matter if they did. Real Time is about the things, the actions and/or the behaviors we’re rolling with now. Real Time ain’t about the shit we swear we’re not going to do sometime in the future. Legendary Comedian Flip Wilson used to play a character called Rev. Leroy. Rev. Leroy pastored the “Church of What’s Happening Now.” Rev. Leroy was known for saying ”… don’t tell me about what you used to do. Don’t tell me about what you’re gonna do. I want to know what’s happenin now…” Amen Rev. In the Chinese language, the symbol for opportunity is also the symbol for crisis. Opportunity and crisis have in common they both happen in Real Time, the fucking eternal now.
“…People spend time they don’t have, doin’ shit that ain’t goin’ make a fuckin bit of difference, tryin’ to impress motherfuckers they don’t even like. What a fucking waste of time. Then they use the spiritual cop out, excuse, of blamin’ shit on in God’s Time. Give me a F-ing break…”
Fr. Esteban
“…Looking back, I’ve spent plenty of time regretting the past. I’ve spent time dwelling on negativities of life, playing and going thru life on the defensive. I’ve spent time focusing on the ways I generally felt life sucked. What a waste of time…”
X
“…I have spent more time than I care to admit starring in the Victim Olympics. I used to love a good pity party. My life was a constant reframing of Snow White… “…mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most victimized of us all?” This wasn’t life; this was a tremendous waste of time…”
Yalie
Real Time is a moment in crisis or opportunity when we have the intuition of Promise 11 and know what to fucking do in Real Time. Real Time is the moment at which we can make our difference in this world. Real Time is the moment where our reason for being on this earth is intuitively answered for us. It’s said In These Rooms,”…if we have a foot in the past and one foot in the future, we are shitting on the present…” Real Time is the present. Real Time is where the shit goes down that gives us the beautiful space to be and do what we might never be afforded a chance to be and/or do again. Real Time is not forever but it’s implications, consequences and repercussions can be a gift that gives for eternity. This is the beauty and blessing of finding the meaning and power in Real Time.
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