Who Are You?

 When you begin to get into some spiritual practice, recovery, meditation, life-style attempts, you might meet someone you really don’t like.  It is you!  When you were inside your bad behavior you could not get enough perspective on it.  Your way of living and responding to life was such a habit you accepted and even defended.  Until you got far enough away from its daily activities or caught yourself doing some behavior that suddenly seems so wrong, given the circumstances.  We see our pettiness.  We see ourselves trying to control life in a selfish, ME manner.  So change for the better is shocking at times.  But others will appreciate your efforts.  They may not have liked that old you either.