Grateful alcoholic??
When I go to meetings and hear someone mention they're grateful to be a recovering alcoholic, I just can't relate. What's that about? I'm sure not grateful for it, maybe the recovering part, but not the alcoholic part. My sponsor said it's because people may not have gotten to the program without alcohol, and I said, duh, it's the only darn thing that brought me here, or otherwise I'd never have darkened the doors of this place, and no, I'm not grateful. Come on, after thirty years of wasting my life away with a bottle of booze stuck to my hand, should I really be grateful? Sounds like true lunacy to me.
Am I missing something here?