I drank for the effect I got from alcohol.
I did not drink because of the outward conditions of my life.
I drank because of something inside of me gone wrong.
The Big Book calls the "bondage of self" as a underlying cause and condition of my drinking.What is the bondage of self?Step 4 in the Big Book describes how you can search within yourself and find it.Once I was relieved of all that garbage,I was at peace,happy and sober with new guidance guiding me every day to keep from going back like I was