AA Thought for the Day - Please Share

[Ann]

April 15, 2007

Complacency

When things are going great,
so well you feel almost on a non-alcoholic high -- look out!
At such times (even after several years of sobriety),
the thought of a drink may seem quite natural,
and the misery of our old drinking days temporarily dims.
Just one drink begins to seem less threatening,
and we start thinking that it wouldn't be fatal, or even harmful.
Sure enough, one would not be -- for the average person.
But our experience with a drinking problem shows us
what that one supposedly harmless, fateful drink
would do to us unaverage people.

Reprinted from Living Sober, Page 43, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.

Thought to Ponder....

The first drink has the last say.

Recovery Related Acronym

S L I P = Sobriety Lost Its Priority.

[lanie67]

I really believe in that "built-in forgetter" the oldtimers always talk about. To this day I do not like to be around people in a social setting where social drinkers drink socially. It's like watching a movie for me, wondering how can they do that, why can't I do that, how can they let that wine glass sit half full, etc, etc, etc. I know this is how my mind works and that I was constantly trying to 'work up' to the day when I could drink and keep my dignity. That is not possible for me, and I have to work a program so that my disease doesn't convince me that it is possible.