One In Eight Billion

Sunday
"Feelings come and feelings go. And feelings are not facts."

These were words I heard in one of the first 12-step meetings I ever went to. It was at noon Monday through Saturday in a disused junior high school in Point Dume, Malibu. The meeting was called "Spiritual Search," after one of the 12 steps of the program, actually the eleventh step. I went to that first meeting about 23 years ago. They stunned me with their insightfulness then and now.

Those words have saved me from suicide many a time. In that same room I also heard the saying, "What happens to me is not very important. I am one of eight billion or so people on the planet and what happens to me is not terribly important."

These thoughts and many other great 12-step thoughts are coming in handy today as I contemplate some mean comments made about me on TV. Here is what happened...