Hear hear. It is amazing how much you get out of helping others. Addiction can be very painful, and a lot of that pain is self obsession. I have 19 days clean, and have volunteered a morning a week in a soup kitchen/cafe, and am going through procedures to help with meetings in prisons. This stuff will save my life I have no doubt - and by life I mean happy life, not some miserable 19 years dry drunk who still shuffles into meetings for the free biscuits.
It's not about who is sober the longest for me, I look for the happy sober people, and learn from them - they do service.
Went out getting signatures for a petition with no food 2 weeks ago at 3 days sober. Random strangers fed me. It comes back in a myriad of ways.
No one ever went broke by giving, that's not how the universe works.