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Originally Posted by aasharon90  Why did it take so long one may ask.....
well.....to let go of old behavior, baggage,
isnt always easy. |
If you find a short-cut to that, be sure to let us know.
After 31 years in AA, I'm still being confronted with (and confounded by) fears, resentments, and selfish behavior I thought I'd effectively dealt with years ago.
That must be why Bill W. wrote *
"Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear."
Fortunately, our Twelve Steps suggest I
continue to take personal inventory, and then give me tools to work on what my inventory reveals. In fact, the very next sentence begins *
"When these crop up..." 
That's also why I have to keep coming back. I was blessed, early in sobriety, to see a lot of old-timers at my home group, who came back meeting after meeting. At the time, all I knew was that they were carrying the message to me. Now I realize that, like me, they probably needed to continue learning how to live this adventure called sobriety, a day at a time. We ain't cured, and we don't get to rest long on our laurels, Our disease is always in the bullpen, warming up for the next inning.
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Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Ed., pg. 84