A'human being'
Just prior to my sobriety commencing and still today I developed an interest in fundemental Buddhist principles, one aspect of which refers tothe 'realms of the spirit' of which there are 10, the highest of which is ' a buddha', or togain 'full enlightenment, let's not go there , the second is to be ' a human being', if you really think about that and all that it involves, acting with compassion, patience and tolerance to others, on a daily basis, to name but a few it ain't that easy!
So, we who have been gived the 'gift'!!! of being recovering alcoholics, can be seen as very 'special' people,for we know onlytowell from our past sufferings that on a daily basis we have to not only try to makespiritual progress but practice these things on a daily basis, nothing less will do, otherwise we die!
Add to this the fact that it is widely accepted that those people who can be regarded as the most spiritual, something that cannot be taught, only learned by 'experiential learning' often are those who've experienced the most suffering.
But as alcoholics we know only to well our frailities, on a positive note, that knowledge and the experiential learning that accompanied it, is our strength,to assist us to rise above our fraility and go some way to becoming a 'human being'.