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No arguement from me on this point. I see it from a few different levels. The first one from a point of extreme self-centeredness. You know when you walk into a room and you think everyone is talking about you? Or when I can't take criticism very well and take everything as a personal attack. Or when I can't take a compliment well either. I've had to learn to say "thank you" to both criticism and compliments.
On another level, I have always felt very deeply. I am a hopeless romantic and a bankrupt idealist. Life has to have depth and meaning and purpose. Thank God that AA has given that to me or being sober wouldn't mean much at all.
I've taken some hard knocks to learn that how I feel doesn't have to dictate my life. I can handle feeling really good and feeling really bad. It is those "flat" times that I hate. You know those times when every day is gray and you just don't feel much at all? I don't do flat well. It is during those times that I just march along and go through the motions. Eventually things turn around. I've learned that life has seasons and that although it may seem like winter is a dead time, it is just dormant. Eventually spring will come and life begins to grow again.
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