One Day at a Time in Al-Anon:
In the great Spanish classic Don Quixote, the author tells about a bemused hero who goes forth to right the world’s wrongs. Among his adventures he has an encounter with some windmills that he imagines to be menacing giants. He fights them with his rusty sword until he falls exhausted.’
Don’t we, too, often wear ourselves out “tilting at windmills” — using our heavy artillery of anger and worry over trifling annoyances that aren’t worth all that futile struggle?
Today’s Reminder:
Do I waste my time and energy fighting situations that are actually not worth a second thought? I will not allow my imagination to build small troubles into big ones. I will try to see each situation clearly, and give it only the value and attention it deserves. This is the sanity to which I want to be restored, as the Second Step suggests.
“God grant me the sense of proportion to judge the difference between an incident and a crisis.”