Hate Or Love

 You can never hate your true self but you can hate your false self.  The false self is what you built up to impress, or to follow some image/lifestyle you read about.  Eventually, you will not much like this self.  Addiction is one way to forget that you dislike this person you have manufactured.  You probably have few friends by then because people want to be love and accepted.  And if you don’t love or respect yourself then you won’t have it for others.  Recovery is about changing yourself to find your true self.  Recovery has steps since you don’t know the way to finding your true self.  If I want to know how I am practicing my religion I can simply ask myself how many people I hate, dislike, judge or ignore?