Affirmation Giggles
Time is my friend.
When I first heard the affirmation “Time is my friend” read out loud at a meeting, I burst into laughter. The concept was so foreign it seemed ludicrous, the exact opposite of my experience.
Yet time is my friend. What is my life except the time gifted to me for the the years I walk this earth? Affirming this truth puts a little wedge of distance and doubt between me and the disease that wants to run my life and ruin everything.
Best of all, the phrase still makes me giggle. A space opens in my chest. My shoulders relax. My jaw releases its clench. It's the light touch of truth providing relief against the heavy hand of disease. My disease has no sense of humor. Laughter immediately nudges me out of the stress of stinking thinking and into recovery – if only for a moment. This moment of time in recovery is indeed an especially good friend. It invites me back to play again.
I have all the time I need to do what is mine to do.
