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SteveP


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...isn't a problem for us in the Fellowship of AA.

I was listening recently to a radio interview of an English actress who moved to LA seven years ago for Hollywood work (she's still there).

She wasn't complaining or anything, but she did say how hard she found it to make friends when she first got there. Apparently, she would go DAYS without speaking to anyone.

While this actress is happy in LA now and apparently has cultivated lots of friends, the whole time I was thinking to myself "I'm lucky. I'm a recovering alcoholic in AA. Far from not having anyone to speak to, wherever I go have LOTS of people to speak with." 

While AA is not a social club and not every room of AA is filled with folks that are going to like me or whom I will necessary like, the power of our Fellowship is so enormous, it is something beyond the comprehension of more "normal" folks. With AA, there need NEVER be a single day that I don't speak with someone.

I knew a guy in AA who had moved from the US to a remote part of England to work on a contract. The people he worked with *literally* could not undertand how he knew so many people locally within the course of two weeks and would ask him about it. He just said "I guess that I can find that I have something in common with a lot of people". ;)

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Nice one : )

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So true Steve!  We are blessed in many ways!  We never need to be alone again.  The AA Fellowship is everywhere. 



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Great post Steve, ... ... ... There is great comfort in knowing this ... and I have found it to be true wherever I go ... Every AA'r I haven't met is just a friend I haven't met yet ... seems we simply add more friends to the family we have, wherever we go ... yet another miracle found in the rooms of AA ... seeing as we are people who would not normally mix ... LOL



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So true Steve. When I relocated a couple hundred miles North last June, I had no fear as I knew I could find people I had something in common with.

I know lots of people in this fellowship who have relocated and found the same - including 3 to Australia and 1 to Florida.

My girlfriend (at my age I hate that term, but we're not partners - so what to call her???) came to the UK from eastern europe twenty years ago. Apart from work colleagues she still has but two other friends - both mothers of children the same age as hers, although of course her FB friends list is in teh hundreds

When i said I was moving up here for work (and to be geographically closer) she said 'but you don't know anyone but me up here!' well soon disproved that one.

Anyhow, I've been absent from here a wee while so maybe I better put a fresh post up.

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Good to see you around BB ...



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This is timely. I am moving in September and have been feeling nervous about leaving my fellowship here. Thanks, Steve!

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Good post Steve , & ya right Mike .

As a Trucker , I only had other truckers to talk to .

When I got sober & went to meetings in towns & cities I was at for th night .

I went to a meeting . Don't need to tell you more about that part .

BB , I met an American woman at th 50th Anniv of AA in Aussie , we had our

18th Anniversary yesterday . Well , I had to give myself permission to go

Stateside . Why , well when I left my ship on a liberty boat , when we docked,

I kissed th ground & promised myself I was NEVER going OS Ever again , I had

just got back from my 3rd trip to Vietnam . Ok we are Stateside , went to a meeting

in Grand Junction Co . It was as if I walked into a meeting in Sydney where everybody

knew me . Why this ? At my 2nd trip Stateside 01 , GJ , same thing , but everybody

was so happy to see us . Steamboat Springs(summertime) , this girl was at her 1st

meeting & could not work out why we had travelled neary 12,000miles , onloaded th car

went to th meeting before dinner . But again th dychotomy , everybody was so pleased to

see us again , as we were so glad to see all our previous friends .

Yes , entry to the most exclusive club in the world .

I am WELCOME , by walking in a door of a hall somewhere in the world .

Shaking somebody's hand & saying . My name is Rick & I'm alcoholic .



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Great post Steve and so true.

We have almost immediate friends everywhere we go!

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