Originally Posted by
digderidoo 
First of all not that i have or thinking about it.
But it's hit me tonight, i have found out someone i know who has 3 years sober, has used drugs in that time.
I guess i kind of looked up to him, maybe put him on a pedestal and then to find out this it made me realise he's just human.
But i was thinking driving back from the meeting that surely that means he should change his sobriety date. Or does it? Being relatively new to AA (8 months), maybe i am looking too deep into it.
Paul
Whether he
should or not is up to him, it's his program, how honestly he wants to work is also up to him. Yeah, it is a good lesson to learn, stopping drinking doesn't all of a sudden make us saints, I feel that hopefully it just gives us an opportunity to look at ourselves and the things that we do. For me, I can be ridiculously judgmental, I need to focus on the principles of the program and not the individuals.