Judge

“The hardest part of taking that inventory is judging yourself fairly,” I said to Dr. Deb.  “I knew two people who couldn’t. Betcha had a hard time forgiving herself for getting addicted to booze and pills after a botched surgery.”

“Her name was ‘Betcha’?” Dr. Deb asked.

“Nickname. Every time she’d beat herself up over some silly thing she’d done wrong her sponsor would say ‘Betcha didn’t drink over it.’ She struggled to see she was a good person trying to do better.”

“Who was the other one?”

“Mitch thought as long as he stayed sober, everything he did was ok. Perfect example of a jackass who got sober, refused to take a serious inventory of himself, and became a sober jackass.”

Dr. Deb said, “I think you could judge yourself a good person if you emptied the dishwasher.”

Today I’ll try to judge myself fairly.

Jury Duty © 2020 by Ken Montrose

Jury Duty is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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