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-- Sang by Bruce Springsteen
and I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window I didn't know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me wasting away On the streets of Philadelphia
I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone At night I could hear the blood in my veins Just as black and wispering as the rain On the streets of Philadelphia
Ain't no angel gonna greet me It's just you and I my friend And my clothes don't fit me no more I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin
The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake I can feel myself fading away So receive me brother with your faithless kiss or will we leave each other alone like this On the streets of Philadelphia
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I am Responsible
For the readiness to take full consequences of our past actions, and to take full responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p 87
In recovery, and through the help of a 12 step group, I learn that the very thing I fear is my FREEDOM. It comes from my tendency to recoil from taking responsibility for anything: I deny, I ignore, I blame, I avoid. Then one day I look, I admit, I accept. The freedom, the healing and the recovery I experience is in the looking, admitting and accepting. I learn to say, "Yes I am responsible." When I can speak those WORDS with honesty and sincerity, Then I am free.