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| Â | | | | Â Governments say, to get back to what we |
| Â | | | | once was. |
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| Â | | | | Â And what's that? |
| Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The | | | | Â |
| Games We Play | | | |  We have been through this over and over again |
| Â | | | | throughout the history of this so called civilized |
| Â Listen to people, | | | | world. |
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| Â I mean really listen. | | | | What are we looking for? |
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| Â So much of our everyday conversations are | | | | What are we trying to recover? |
| games. | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â It was the same back then as it is now. |
| Â We play the game to get what we want, when | | | | Â |
| we want it. | | | | Â Wars, rumors of wars, greed, crime, you know, |
| Â | | | | the usual. |
| Â We play and are taught the game from the | | | | Â |
| time we are born 'till the day we die. | | | | Â Â Peace, Happiness, Serenity? |
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| Â What is the game? | | | | Â Never really had that in this world. |
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| Â Why so many rules? | | | | Â So, if we as a human race, never had that, |
| Â | | | | doesn't it stand to reason that's it not a Recovery |
| Â So many ways to play. | | | | that we are looking for , But a Discovery? |
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| Â Just who makes up the rules as we go along? | | | | Â |
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| Â What is this game we all play, and when are we | | | | Doesn't it stand to reason, that we can't recover |
| going to sit down long enough to shut up and | | | | something if we never had it in the first place? |
| listen? | | | | Â |
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| Â Realizing that we have been playing at this game | | | | Â |
| for so long that we have become the game . | | | | Â Â Â Â 2) To regain normal health, control or |
| Â | | | | balance |
| Â So then who are we really? | | | | Â |
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| Are we faint reflections of those that are around | | | | Â |
| us? | | | | Again, look around you, we never really had |
| Â | | | | normal health, control, or balance in this world. So |
| Â Are we our own self being? | | | | again how can we as a world recover anything if |
| Â | | | | we never had it? |
| Â Or are we who others say we are? | | | | Â |
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| Â Just who are we? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 3) To win favorable judgment in a law |
| Â Better yet, | | | | suit |
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| Â due to the game, | | | | Â In whose favor, |
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| Â I must ask, | | | | Â Ours? Theirs? |
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| Â Where are we going? | | | | Â Games, We all play them. Some better than |
| Â | | | | others, yet, a game nevertheless |
| Â What's the prize? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Â We always had wars, crime, murder, death |
| Â A free trinket? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Never really had peace, happiness, or serenity |
| Â A better life? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Never lost the one |
| Â For whom? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Never had the other |
| Â Are we really on the road to recovery? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â So how can we recover what was never lost, |
| Â Recovery of what? | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â and how can we regain what we never had? |
| Â Let's take a moment and reflect on this word. | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â So then, who are we really? |
| Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Recovery | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Are we just a reflection of those that are |
| Â | | | | around us? |
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| 1) To get back | | | | Â Are we our own self beings? |
| Â 2) To regain normal health control or balance | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Whose rules do we play by? |
| Â 3) To win favorable judgment in a lawsuit | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â Better yet |
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| Â | | | | Â Where are we going, and are we really going |
| Ok, now we know what the word means, yet, I | | | | down this road we wish to call recovery? |
| must interject a question on mans usage of this | | | | Â |
| word in trying to make this a better place for us | | | | Â To many memories of yesterday |
| to live in. | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | Â To many wishful dreams of today |
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| Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1) To get back | | | | Â = equals = |
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| Â | | | | Â To many nightmares to face tomorrow |
| To bet back what? | | | | Â |
| Â Just what was it that we seem to have lost? | | | | Â In the Game. |