Originally Posted by
Thumpalumpacus 
Your point is well-put: no one owes us a damned thing in group. But -- the folks there, tangential though they might be to your life, do in some ways care how you do it.
They might not ask about your views on clothing animals, but that might not mean they ain't curious -- perhaps they're only shy and awaiting you?
I think you get out of recovery, whatever route you take, what you put into it.
As I believe is true of most people, I look back with a different kind of clarity than I possessed in the moment. I was too terrified to be concerned with much else beyond getting sober.
Faith didn't grab me from above, and I wasn't overcome by the sometimes assumed "spirituality" of a shared affliction (though I do believe there is something to the latter). I survived my own recovery based on a conviction that I owed myself a better life. The only thing to "do" was to start.