The postcard shown above I hand-fashioned in the Creativity Lab at the Museum of Modern Art / MoMa. It took me about 15 minutes to choose the elements of the composition.
“Today I tried” reminded me of when I was the Health Guide at the HealthCentral schizophrenia website.
There the editorial team wrote: “The only real failure is the failure to try.”
That’s audacious telling people living with SZ this. Only:
Trying can be as simple as getting out of bed.
Or cooking yourself a meal. Or taking a shower.
It’s the effort that counts not the outcome.
Michael Jordan is quoted too:
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.”
This is the viaduct in recovery as I see it: to try, to risk, to fail, and to try again.
To understand that life is to be lived “one second at a time” as we do what it takes to live well in recovery.
For what is recovery if not an act of courage to continue?
Read your 12-Step books. Go for a walk in the neighborhood. Call a friend on the telephone. Paint or sketch.
Engage in healing modalities like these and other habits.
As long as you try, as long as you give something your best shot, there can be no shame if it doesn’t work out.
In the next blog entry I’ll write more about the idea of voyaging.
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