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Is Bipolar Vision Clouding Your Sight?
Is Bipolar Vision clouding your sight?
We need to be wise and make the right choice in our recovery. That does not mean to just follow the crowd, we need to be prudent. I was listening to a talk this past weekend and he used an illustration that made me think that it works well with our recovery.
Although this story is an illustration and more of a cautionary tale that has a good message.
Once upon a time there were all these animals that lived in the forest. So the story will help us so we can be wise to make the right decision and to understand the principle.
Once upon a time there were all these animals that lived together in the forest. There was Mr. Fox, Mrs. Squirrel, Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Deer, Mrs. Pig and then there was Mr. Lion.
Well the Lion said to himself I’m getting older now and I just can’t run as fast as I used to. I think I’ll have a party and invite the other animals to my home so that’s what he did. He invited Mr. Fox, Mrs. Squirrel, Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Deer, Mrs. Pig to his home for party.
Well the Lion had his party but he noticed that Mr. Fox didn’t come. So he said to himself I know I’ll wait a little while and I’ll have another party. Sure enough, he did and he invited many different animals from the woods and some of them came and again Mr. Fox didn’t come. The Lion is getting really puzzled. The Lion goes ahead and tries one more time, so he has another party an invited different animals from the woods and they come. But, for the third time Mr. Fox doesn’t come, so The Lion is really puzzled now!
So, some time passes and he sees Mr. Fox from a distance and he says,
“Mr. Fox I had three different parties at my home and you haven’t come to any one …