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Congratulation on the gamble free days!
This jay-walking story makes an excellent story for recovery from addictions.
“Our behaviors was unreasonable; unsound; and hard to understand with respect to the first bet.
It is like the man who likes to jay-walk. This person likes to rush across the road in front of fast-moving vehicles, instead of using the traffic light or zebra crossing.
He has been doing this for years despite warnings. Up to this point you would label him as a foolish person.
Luck then deserts him and he is slightly injured several times. You would expect him, if he were normal, to stop but he is hit again, this time he has a fractured skull.
Within a week after leaving the hospital a fast-moving car breaks his arm. He tells you he has decided to stop jay-walking for good, but in a few weeks’ time he breaks both legs.”
“Through the years this behavior continues, accompanied by his continual promises to be careful or not to do it again.
Finally, he can no longer work, and his wife gets a divorce. He tried to stop jaywalking and shut himself up in an asylum, hoping to mend his ways.
Once he recovers and comes out, he races across the road in front of a fire engine, which breaks his back.
Is this man crazy? But if we substitute gambling for jay-walking, this illustration would fit exactly.
Hi Callmecrazy
I saw your post in another thread. How are you?
Hi jvr3419
Thinking of you. How are you?
God created all things visible and invisible, like the visible tree and its invisible root.
If a recovering person is free from gambling but not deep rooted with spiritual principles. Any strong winds will uproot the tree.
Just like the person is waiting for some good or bad news to happen
and he/she will return to gambling.Some things to think about
A recovering person can stop gambling
But the living problems is not going to stopEveryone can stop gambling but the trick is staying stop
The fat cat is the casino, betting houses or bookies. The gambler keep losing and giving their hard earn money to them. This cat grows fat.
The skinny cat is the mother, wife and children The gambler is not giving them enough. This cat grow skinny.
The sleeping cat was the gambler The gambler does not have the awareness to know what is happening around them. This cat is sleeping. This cat really need to wake up!
This story was about a mountain climber, who wanted to climb the highest mountain. He began his adventure after many years of preparation, but since he wanted the glory just for himself, he decided to climb the mountain alone. The night felt heavy in the heights of the mountains, and the man could not see anything.
All was black. Zero visibility, and the moon and the stars were covered by the clouds.
As he was climbing, only a few feet away from the top of the mountain, he slipped and fell into the air, falling at a great speed.
The climber could only see black spots as he went down, and the terrible sensation of being sucked by gravity.
He kept falling… and in those moments of great fear, it came to his mind all the good and bad episodes of his life.
He was thinking now about how close death was getting, when all of a sudden he felt the rope tied to his waist pull him very hard.
His body was hanging in the air. Only the rope was holding him, and in that moment of stillness he had no other choice but scream, “HELP ME GOD!!”All of a sudden, a deep voice coming from the sky answered, “What do you want Me to do?”
“Save me God!!”
“Do you really think I can save you?”
“Of course I believe You can.”
“Then cut the rope tied to your waist.”There was a moment of silence and the man decided to hold on to the rope with all his strength.
The rescue team found the climber dead and frozen on the next day.
His body hanging from a rope – His hands holding tight to the rope only 10 feet away from the ground.When are you going to let go of the gambling?
In a faraway place, villagers capture monkeys using a banana and coconut trap.
A small hole is made in a coconut, just big enough to fit a monkey hand, and a banana is placed within.
A monkey then comes along, puts his hand inside the coconut, and grab the banana. The monkey tried to pull out his hand but it is far too big to fit through the hole, it is now trapped inside the hole but the monkey still refuses to surrender his banana.
His captor then approaches and capture the monkey.
Why didn’t the monkey just let go of the banana?
The monkey is a victim of habit. By refusing to change and sticking to an act that has served him well in the past (eating a banana), he allows himself to get captured.
The monkey was trapped by his refusal to admit that something that has previously been good for him has now become dangerous.
Don’t get trapped by unhelpful thoughts or actions. Just let go of the banana!
Gambling is the banana!
Don’t be the monkey!A stone cutter may strike the rock 99 times with no apparent effect, not even a crack on the surface.
Yet with the hundredth blow, the rock splits in two.
It was not the final blow that did the trick, but all that had gone before.I may pursue a goal for months and years without obvious results and become convinced that I was wasting my time.
But if I continue to share about my struggle in GT, taking it one day at a time, and being patient with myself.
I may awaken one day, to find that I have change, seemingly overnight.
I have a gut feel that all these months and years of faith and hard work will made the changes possible one day
and the results would reveal themselves abruptly one day.
It took me a long time to become a addict and it may take a long time for me to recover.Chapter 1
I walk down the street, There is a deep hole in the sidewalk, I fall in. I am lost.I am hopeless, It takes forever to find a way out.Chapter 2
I walk down the same street, There is a deep hole in the sidewalk, I pretend I dun see it, I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But I believe it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.Chapter 3
I walk down the same street, There is a deep hole in the sidewalk, I see it is there I still fall in, it‘s a habit I know where I am It is my fault I get out immediately.Chapter 4
I walk down the same street, There is a deep hole in the sidewalk, I walk around it.Chapter 5
I walk down another street.Where are you now?