Changing

Changing may actually require that I MAKE some changes! ~ Susan Y

We come to the rooms of Recovery.
see people living lives of sanity
while telling stories proving
they were...are...as sick as we are.
Enough proof we can see
they have the lives we want,
what we're looking for.
We begin to read, to listen,
to wish, to hope we can find
what we see in them.
We can try for weeks, for months,
sometimes for years
until finally we hear, we absorb.
the truth we need.
Yes. we want to be changed.
But the path to get there is to change...
to change our thoughts,
our habits, our emotions,
our lives. And understanding happens.
For things, for our lives to change
we ourselves actually have to change
even if only becoming willing to be willing
to CHANGE!