Matters of Prestige

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself." Michel De Montaigne

Today we need to look more closely at how morality enters into the blueprint for making amends. And this brings us into the area of "omissions and commissions."
* Have we been unfaithful to the significant other in our lives?
* Have we dealt in character assassination against someone we know?
* Have we been so self-obsessed that we've failed to meet the needs of our spouse? Our lover? Our parents? Our siblings? Our children? Our friends?
* Have we been a parent who has not been sensitive to the needs of our children? Have we ruled them by emotional blackmail? Have we withheld love and approval? Have we not been there for them when they needed us?
* Have we been so preoccupied in furthering our own social and business careers that everyone else must take second place on our priority list?
* Have we been demanding? Critical? Patronizing? Untruthful? Self-serving?

As we answer these questions on our written inventory of amends (for it must be written---just like our Fourth Step), we will proabably discover even more incidences where money, property, and prestige were the motivating factors for our old behavior.

Today's Step: I uncover ways the need for presige has led me to wrongdoing.