Daily Reflections

[CarolD]

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THE FALSE COMFORT OF SELF-PITY

Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom, which we can ill afford.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 238

The false comfort of self-pity screens me from reality only momentarily and then demands, like a drug, that I take an ever bigger dose. If I succumb to this it could lead to a relapse into drinking. What can I do? One certain antidote is to turn my attention, however slightly at first, toward others who are genuinely less fortunate than I, preferably other alcoholics. In the same degree that I actively demonstrate my empathy with them, I will lessen my own exaggerated suffering.


Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

[IO Storm]

The "Upon awakening prayer"...

We asked God to direct our thinking..especially that it be divorced from self pity,

dishonest..and self-seeking motives."

I hope I didn't misquote..

But it is the first thing I pray..before I open my eyes. It works!

All day..

I got away from it for awhile..and all heck broke loose.