Feed The Right Wolf

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.

“One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”

“The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Like many people I've struggled through my life, unable to find any meaning. By the time I was 25 years old, I found myself in the place where I no longer knew what to do next, and I wasn't sure where I wanted to go. To make things worse, I was battling numerous addictions, and these battles and addictions consumed most of my time and energy. I did not know how to battle my addictions and kept trying the quitting "cold turkey" approach, failing every time.

One night a friend of mine send me some kind of political article. I can no longer remember what the article was about, but the narrator has chose the old Cherokee story as his closing theme. I think I've heard this story before, but this time it took on a whole new meaning for me. I realized that all I had to do in order to get my life back together was to feed the right wolf.

Feeding the right wolf turned out to be harder than I originally thought. Having spend\t most of my life playing with and nurturing the wrong wolf, I had very little knowledge of how my right wolf worked. Slowly I have experimented with new ways of living my life, that would allow me to maximize the positive outcomes. The more I kept digging inside myself however, the more I kept finding different ways of how I used to feed the wrong wolf. Having thought of myself as a normal individual for most of my life, I realized that I had many thoughts and believes that were far from normal. Two years later I am still working on getting my life back together. It is a long process and nothing happens overnight. But it is also a magical process.

About a year a go, I began reaching out to other people. I realized that some of the things that I discover for myself could also benefit others. I don't claim to be a guru, in opposite I am hundred percent ordinary. In this, however, lies the value of my experiences - if I can do it, everybody can. I only share the things that worked for me, but I would love to hear your stories. After all, my main purpose for running this website is to help me on my own recovery journey.

I welcome you to this site, and I hope you will be able to find something of interest to you.

God bless you, and have a wonderful day!