Perhaps...

I'm reading a really interesting book. It's called "Six Essentials to Achieve Lasting Recovery," by Dr. Sterling Shumway and Dr. Thomas Kimball.

I'm not an addict. Unless you count substance abuse of chocolate and Diet Coke. And I do come from a long line of alcoholics.

But I digress. This book is written to families and loved ones, as well as addicts themselves. Each of these six priniciples has universal applications to everyone - which is what I found so surprising. I was kind of expecting another 12 Step treatise. It's different, and somehow even more personal, than that.

Dr. Shumway - who I presume was an addict at one time - shares a story about how he re-enrolled in college after several years. As a returning student, he left a profitable career and brought a wife and children back to academia with him. To hear him tell it (can you do that in a book?), after the first day of school he had a full-blown attack of what the @#$% have I done??!

Well, I'm not going to tell you how it ends. But it really made me think about all the "perhaps" talks I have with myself. Could the nature and substance of our lives really change by altering the way we speak to ourselves? I'm not sure but I'm certainly willing to become my own test subject.


Disclosure: Tom Kimball sent me this book for free. But I promise to buy him a burger next time I'm at Texas Tech.