Thread: Going to try AA
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Old 12-01-2005, 07:55 PM   #8 (permalink)
Phinneas
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Originally Posted by Gideon
One question, it seemed that a group response to someone worrying about the future was "don't project." A nice woman tried to explain it a bit to me afterwards. It basically boiled down to planning and not projecting. I must confess I did not fully understand despite the attempted explanation. Does anyone have a view?
Congrats for going to a meeting. I hope you will go to many more to get the benefit of AA and the support of many good people.

For me, don't project has to do with "future tripping." I tend to worry and think about the future - what will happen when? how will this situation turn out? what do I do if? and so on. The program teaches me to stay in today and to do the "next right thing." If I do this, the future takes care of itself.
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