Old 05-18-2013, 09:33 PM
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Grungehead
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Originally Posted by Tamerua View Post
You will get a lot out of just listening. Like most things in life, probably more than others who are thinking about what they are going to say instead of focusing on what is naming said. I'm a big listener.
LOL Tamerua. There's nothing worse than being a regular at a discussion meeting and no one is raising their hand. Then the person chairing starts calling names. I was bad with names so if I was chairing I always hoped after a topic was pickied 20 hands would go up so I didn't have to call on anyone.

But when I was new to the program I would rarely speak because basically I didn't have any experience to share except how not to stay sober. If called on I would just say I'd just like to listen today. I had an old sponsor who was pretty straight forward with me. Some days he would say before the meeting to just shut up and listen today haha. He was a great sponsor though. He didn't sugar coat anything and that is exactly the way I needed it to be.
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