[Tazman53]

I remember when I was drinking and in early sobriety, I looked for the negative or bad in everything and I was negative, angry, and argumentative about almost everything.

There were so many things in the program and in the world that I would seek and find the bad in lookinig beyond and through all of the good that was staring me right in the face!

I spoke to my sponsor and others about all of these bad things and the main thing I was told was "Martin, look for the good & the posotive in all things, it is there if you look for it" Well slowly I would find myself looking for the good & the posotive in all things............ there it was, right in front of me, the more I looked for the good, the more I realized that the good far outweighed the bad in most cases.

The neat effect of this was I have become far more posotive in life, I am for the most part happy and what is there to argue about when things are good.

The cleaner my side of the street is the more good I can see in everything around me, the bad pales in comparison to the good today.

One prime example of this was when I was drinking AA was for losers, old men who could not handle thier liquor anymore crying about what a lousy lot they had been dealt in life.

Today I am able to drink in the joy of AA and see the miracles that AA produces for those who simply stop looking for the bad and instead loof for the good.