One of the first things that we learn to explore in recovery is gratitude. We make gratitude lists, we take the time to sit down each day and write down all of the people, places and things that we are grateful for, the things that we love, and over time, we begin to appreciate our own lives and perhaps even cease to compare our lives longingly to others. We come to understand that even the harshest events in our lives were purposeful on some level, in order that we may learn what we need to learn to become exactly who we are. I hung out with Brad Pitt many years ago when we were on the set of a Patrick Dempsey film. We sat in his dressing room and smoked his cigarettes; he could afford the cigarettes because he had a couple of line in the film. He was young and raw, with a leather jacket and a motorcycle; he didn’t have much else, including cares. He was pretty cool, but did I want his life? Absolutely not. Look at him today, my lord. Would I trade lives with him today? Not in a million years.
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