Material Achievement No member of A.A. wants to deprecate material achievement.Nor do we enter into debate with the many who cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.Be we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholic
We demand more than our share of security, prestige, and romance.When we seemed to be succeeding, we drink to dream still greater dreams.When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. In all these strivings, so many of them well intentioned, our crippling handicap was our lack of humility.We lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were simply by-products and not the chief aims of life.
