What is the difference between assumptions and the truth?
Nothing, according to Ed.
This is because Ed thinks he is very wise. He thinks he is so educated.
Ed has already given himself an honorary Master’s, and a Doctorate….if there were an honorary “Supreme Brainiac of the Universe” award, Ed would give himself that title too.
Ed just thinks he’s all that and a bag of (er) snacks.
But is he?
Let’s take a common assumption that we make (with a little help from Ed) and check it out.
We often assume we won’t be able to survive without Ed. We need Ed. Ed loves us. Ed cares even when no one else does.
Yet absolutely everything else that we read and hear about love tells us that real love is not trying to change another person all the time – their outsides or their insides.
Real love does not refuse to hear the other point of view.
Real love doesn’t have to be right all the time.
And real love never deliberately injures their beloved – even when they believe it is for that person’s own good.
So what is assumption, and what is fact?
What Would Ed Do? Um, Ed is fact. What Ed says is fact. Ed is love. Any questions?
What Would Recovery Do? Find something that rhymes with “love it” and tell Ed just where he can put his assumption about what it means to love and be loved.
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