Sabotage: How to do it

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." Margaret Lee Runbeck

Despite our admission of personal powerlessness, as we work Step One, many of us continue to rebel at the fact that we are unable to effect recovery by our own efforts. We see meetings as unneccessary. We have no intention of affilitiating ourselves with a group, and we generally balk at being told what we have to do.

This is when we come face-to-face with the fact that what we do have is the power to continue to make ourselves miserable. And here's the way we do it:
* Seeing ourselves as victims of outrageous fortune.
* Feeling we've fallen prey to Murphy's law: "If anything can possibly go wrong---it will."
* Doing unto others before they do unto us, because we know they're out to get us.
* Denying that any power could be greater than ourselves.
* Living for ourselves alone, because no one else is interested in our well-bding.
* Keeping a distance between ourselves and others so they won't find our vulnerable points.
* Taking an inventory of the failings of others, and pointing out their deficiencies to them.
* Refusing help to people, because if we "give them an inch, they'll take a mile."
* Dwelling on the inequities that bestow money and power on those far less deserving than we.
* Feeling sorry for ourselves.

Today's Step: I face my current situation squarely and without blame.