Who Do I Want to Be?

Recently a young woman in an Al-Anon meeting shared that her mother, in a phone call, had attacked her with expletives. She said, “The last time this happened, I didn’t speak to her for 15 years. But this time I decided to do it differently. I thought to myself, ‘Regardless of her behavior, who do I want to be?’”

It’s easy to react to someone else’s unacceptable behavior, but the higher road is being who we truly want to be, no matter what.

You write it: Who is it that you truly want to be, no matter what?