Sidebar

I don't know that my worst shortcomings--those that I have been most ashamed of--have been completely removed. "Repressed" would be closer to the truth. I now have an honest desire to be rid of them. I have a new self-awareness. I question my motives, with the result that I can feel for others to a greater extent than ever before. I can shut my mouth instead of biting someone's head off. I can understand, forgive, and laugh at things that used to infuriate me, gall me, fill me with bitterness--and get me drunk. Now, I can laugh at my own foibles--at myself--and this has enabled me to shed a heavy burden.