Flux

When people lose the ability to do something successfully, they see themselves in decline or at a loss.  But life is not a zero sum game.  Life is a series of recalibrations or flux.  We change rather than lose.  If you “lose” the ability to drink alcohol successfully, you have the opportunity to gain so much else in recovery.  If you lose a physical ability in one area, you recalibrate and gain agility in another area.  If you cannot see as well as you used to you learn to recalibrate the other senses in your life of flux.  It took time to do something in your past.  If you can no longer do that something, then you now have time to do something else.  We recalibrate to learn new skills and new enjoyments.  Life is a series of transitions.