“It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism.”– Page Eighty-Five, the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous – I was at a meeting the other evening, and […]
“Don’t drink, go to meetings and ask for help.”That basic Tenet has been waterboarded into me from the very beginning.The first two directives are easy, but that third one trips me up every time. Like many of us, I’m the product of an alcoholic home. Projecting the illusion that everything is great was always
Back in the day when I was a newcomer, I looked at the old timers and wished I had their quality of sobriety automatically granted to me.It’s fun to think something will just be handed over without any effort.If only the world worked that way. It didn’t occur to me that their level of wisdom
I grew up in a nice, middle class neighborhood, with nice, middle class values.I’d watch television shows featuring happy, normal families and happy, normal people.All around me, normal people were going about their lives. I felt like a pretender, a square peg in a round hole.Something was wrong. Some element was missing…I just didn’t know
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