Ben Domenech

I'm like, no, dude, you cannot clean your glasses.

See the world as you were meant to see it.

I think that's what recovery does for us.

It helps us see the world as we're meant to see it.

And I think it helps us to see, kind of along those lines about seeing things the way we're supposed to see them.

I really like this quote.

He talks about the things that have become familiar to us, things that we have appropriated, he puts it.

He says, we say we know them.

They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter or their color or their shape, and we laid hands on them and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.

And it's very easy for us in this very busy world, a very full world that we all live in, to think that we know this experience or this thing or whatever it might be.

But seeing it anew, seeing it fresh, can make all the difference.

And that's what recovery is, is to recover that clear, clean sight.

So, consolation.

Tolkien would say that is the single most required element in a genuine fantasy story is...

this notion of consolation which for him is is the eucatastrophe isn't it sean the consolation of the happy ending the end not just the happy ending but like you said the eucatastrophe that that improbable happy ending that like impossible to count on and you can't count on it recurring you never expected this it's golem biting frodo's finger off at the moment of frodo's failure yeah it's the rohirrim showing up at the at the pellin norfields mm-hmm

Right, as the Witch King is going through the gate.

As the Witch King is going through the gate.

Yeah, that's the stuff that... It's Aragorn sailing up with the Black Fleet and revealing the standard of Elendil.

And all of a sudden, everything changes, right?

You're thinking, oh man, we're all going to die.