receintly I have been around people who can't seem to get the program and yes It is one of thoes things that let me look back on the early days.  I can honestly say I don't know how I understood the prograqm and try to live day to day practicing what I have learned.  I know that it was all the God of my understanding that got me here.

I think that it takes desperation to motivate most of us (from what I have heard from my meetings that I attend)  Sometimes it is just fear.  Either way It is in gods time.

I can see that when you are honest with yourself and finally realize that it was the first drink that got you drunk and not the last few, I know that I then learned that I now had the responsibility to never take that first one.

Why some struggle and others don't is just the nature of this illness,  unfortunately it takes people who go out all the time to teach the rest of us a valuable lesson...that we need to take this illness seriously and to be through and rigorously honest to keep sobriety.  Or else...