{"id":7126,"date":"2017-02-18T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:45:25","slug":"better-thans-0-less-thans-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2017\/02\/18\/better-thans-0-less-thans-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Better thans: 0 \/ Less thans: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Occasionally I get a little help with my narrative or perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Today someone shared about entering the rooms feeling \u201cbetter than\u201d and he talked about being harsh or malicious or judgmental instead of having compassion or empathy for newcomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He couldn\u2019t stay sober.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Something clicked: I went into the rooms feeling very much less than, and I had the great fortune of finding an AA group full of \u201cbetter thans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I didn\u2019t get along with quite a few of them and I didn\u2019t really have any compassion or empathy for them either. I basically fucking hated their guts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>And I couldn\u2019t stay sober either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Well, most of them are gone now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I guess whether you are a \u201cbetter than\u201d or a \u201cless than,\u201d the waves will lap away at you until you\u2019re just \u201cone of,\u201d and you will eventually have that removed from you one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/b7e88fe64e3bf7a9e54d13d62e385db7e583f58a.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/b7e88fe64e3bf7a9e54d13d62e385db7e583f58a.png 489w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/b7e88fe64e3bf7a9e54d13d62e385db7e583f58a-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/b7e88fe64e3bf7a9e54d13d62e385db7e583f58a-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I get a little help with my narrative or perspective. Today someone shared about entering the rooms feeling \u201cbetter than\u201d and he talked about being harsh or malicious or judgmental instead of having compassion or empathy for newcomers. He couldn\u2019t stay sober. Something clicked: I went into the rooms feeling very much less than, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14795,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}