Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.
Alcoholics Anon. p. 89
A man came to the meeting drunk, interrupted the speakers, stood up and took his shirt off, staggered loudly back and forth for coffee, demanded to talk, and eventually called the group's secretary an unquotable name and walked out. I was glad he was there - once again I saw what I had been like. But I also saw what I still am, and what I still could be. I don't have to be drunk to want to be the exception and the center of attention. I have often felt abused and responded abusively when I was simply being treated as a garden variety human being. The more the man tried to insist he was different, the more I realized that he and I were exactly alike.
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
i know what u r talking about doll, last week i had to repair a drain for a bar here in town.on sat moring, yep there were the old standbys at the bar!!!wasnt that long ago i would be there right along with them, glad those days r behind me! starting drinking in the moring till who knows when,you take care and god bless you wagon!!
