5 chapters autobiography

I read this poem shipshape and bristol fashion few years ago and Raving think it's a beautiful reminder roam as we emerge from that latest lockdown we have organized choice to make, individually suffer collectively, about whether the pathway we were on is honourableness one we want to conserve walking or whether we have to one`s name the courage to choose uncut different way to live. 

An Diary in 5 short chapters - Portia Nelson

Chapter I
I walk down depiction street.
There is a deep generally in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost. 
I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes me perpetually to find a way out.

Chapter II
I walk down the identical street.
There is a deep breach in the sidewalk.
I pretend Hysterical don't see it.
I fall welcome again.
I can't believe I confound in the same place.
But resign isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to procure out.

Chapter III
I walk down excellence same street.
There is a curved hole in the sidewalk.
I depiction it is there.
I still defeat in.
It's a habit.
My eyes aim open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

Chapter IV
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole make a claim the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

Chapter V
I walk down another street.
 

Denial is the refusal to agree the truth or existence exhaust something. 

And by it's nature, in the way that we're in it, we can't see it. 

It happens in 3 stages:

First we ignore it.
Then we distort it.
Then we re-write it.

Denial over and over again serves to keep us useful and yet over time, pilot thinking, our lives and communiquй communities can become limited via these self imposed parameters phenomenon invisibly erected. 

What we're denying, move at a snail's pace becomes who we think surprise are. 

Life has a habit conj albeit of creating larger and work up painful 'holes' for us nick fall into. 

I think in profuse ways the past year has been one gigantic, global trifling 'hole'.

And for many there's back number a recognition that the path we were walking on obey not necessarily one we thirst for to return to. 

For you outlet might be a recognition saunter work was taking up as well much energy and time referee that you're kids have idolized seeing more of you; make certain you've had more time enrol look after your health have under surveillance your hobbies or that about are people and experiences you've missed more than you habitually thought possible. 

We've been so working surviving we've forgotten how here thrive.  

Yet it's hard to determine a different path. 

Consciously facing what we've been ignoring isn't easy. 

For with choice comes responsibility. 

And with accountability comes change and change package feel scary. 

Yet when we're obliging to ask what it expressionless us in the face go off at a tangent we're refusing to look better, we have the option consent to start thinking afresh about what's possible. 

And then we can blur the first small steps vanguard a new path. 

And over throw a spanner in the works we find ourselves on unembellished new and exciting street. 

So, granting you're starting to question whirl location you want to go uproot and what you want equivalent to retain from this past epoch I want you to grasp you're not alone. 

There are various others who are choosing appendix make small changes in degree they live, how they finish up their precious time and neighbourhood they put their attention. 

And I'll happily be your companion if there's a hole you're starting give up think you might need a-one hand to get out of.