Misery Is Optional

One of the most powerful lessons I have learned in recovery from addiction is that pain is necessary to bring us to recovery..... but the misery that always seemed to accompany my pain was optional.
In recovery I have learned that I have a choice whether to be miserable or not and that recognition was liberating for me.
Today I relish my freedom to choose, to feel, to act....and that I and only I can take it away.