I was seeing a therapist about ten years ago and she gave me this poem that I just stumbled upon recently. It's called Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson. It goes like this:
Chapter 1
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost… I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way
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