Step we are on: Three
Chapter: 5 "How It
Works"
Subject: Playing God,
resentment, self-pity, self-centeredness, The Actor, Anger
- How do his actions affect the other people in his life?
And do not his actions make each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they can get out of the show?
- What is usually the product of his efforts?
Is he not, even in his best moments, a producer of confusion rather than harmony?
- What would people call our actor?
Our actor is self-centered - ego-centric, as people like to call it nowadays.
- He can be compared to whom?
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia.
Utopia –
any conception of an ideal state
The
Winston Simplified Dictionary – 1938
Page 62
- With our fussing and complaining, what are we really concerned with?
Whatever our protestations, are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our resentments, or our self-pity?
Pity is a feeling of sorrow for the distress of others. Self-pity can be seen as a feeling of sorrow for the distress of one’s "Self".
Peace and Love,
Danny S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
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