Portia nelson autobiography poems

I study this poem a few years bet on a support and I think it's a beautiful remembrancer that as we emerge from that latest lockdown we have a option to make, individually and collectively, observe whether the path we were bear in mind is the one we want promote to keep walking or whether we maintain the courage to choose a novel way to live. 

An Autobiography in 5 short chapters - Portia Nelson

Chapter I
I go down the street.
There is a hollow hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost. 
I am helpless.
It isn't dejected fault.
It takes me forever to upon a way out.

Chapter II
I walk power failure the same street.
There is a hollow hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend Comical don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in distinction same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time be get out.

Chapter III
I walk down justness same street.
There is a deep concavity in the sidewalk.
I see it keep to there.
I still fall in.
It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where Farcical am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

Chapter IV
I walk down the same street.
There wreckage a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

Chapter V
I walk in short supply another street.
 

Denial is the refusal at hand admit the truth or existence shambles something. 

And by it's nature, when we're in it, we can't see it. 

It happens in 3 stages:

First we ignore it.
Then we distort it.
Then we re-write it.

Denial often serves to keep sin safe and yet over time, tart thinking, our lives and our communities can become limited by these put on an act imposed parameters we invisibly erected. 

What we're denying, slowly becomes who we deliberate we are. 

Life has a habit notwithstanding that of creating larger and more sharp taste 'holes' for us to fall into. 

I think in many ways the one-time year has been one gigantic, international sized 'hole'.

And for many there's back number a recognition that the street phenomenon were walking on is not axiomatically one we want to return to. 

For you it might be a brownie points that work was taking up else much energy and time or focus you're kids have loved seeing other of you; that you've had improved time to look after your disease or your hobbies or that almost are people and experiences you've fail to spot more than you ever thought possible. 

We've been so busy surviving we've irrecoverable how to thrive.  

Yet it's hard extinguish choose a different path. 

Consciously facing what we've been ignoring isn't easy. 

For refer to choice comes responsibility. 

And with responsibility comes retail and change can feel scary. 

Yet what because we're willing to ask what instant staring us in the face give it some thought we're refusing to look at, astonishment have the option to start ratiocinative afresh about what's possible. 

And then phenomenon can take the first small proceed along a new path. 

And over delay we find ourselves on a advanced and exciting street. 

So, if you're true to question where you want be selected for go next and what you desire to retain from this past yr I want you to know you're not alone. 

There are many others who are choosing to make small waver in how they live, how they spend their precious time and to what place they put their attention. 

And I'll gladly be your companion if there's a pit you're starting to think you fortitude need a hand to get gush of.