Daily Recovery Blog
Friday November 28, 2025
"Addiction is like wrestling a gorilla. You don't stop when you
get tired; you stop when the gorilla gets tired." - Boxer Guy
INSANITY IS REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES EXPECTING DIFFERENT
RESULTSI knew that using drugs had done damage to my spirit. I was doing
things to get high that I did not want to do. I still didn't want
to consider myself insane though. I felt like I would be okay if
I could just stop using in a particular way. It was what I call
today "junkie mentality". My mind approved of a lot of things
when I was using, that I know today were insane. My denial was
thick. When I finally realized I could not stop using, the word
insanity took on a whole new meaning. Prior to that moment of
clarity, I had always believed insane people were in straight
jackets at the happy farm. When my sponsor asked me "would it be
insane for you to use drugs knowing what they did to you?" That
statement haunted me. Was I really insane? Even I could see that
an addict like me should not use. If you are an addict, and you
start using again, be careful. For the first time in my life, the
longing inside my heart reached my brain. It would be insane for
an addict like me to use drugs. My broken spirit accepted the
fact that insanity truly is repeating the same mistakes expecting
different results.
“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in
struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into
a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make
you laugh because it becomes absurd.” - David Lynch
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