Old 08-18-2016, 12:11 PM
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tomsteve
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when i went to my first meeting- ready for help- i backed into a parking spot,pulled out, drove home, balled my eyes out all nignt wondering why i couldnt get out of the car.
i didnt have courage.


"Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there."
I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates very clearly that fear is an illusion. I create the illusion myself.
I experienced fear early in my life and I mistakenly thought that the mere presence of it made me a coward. I didn't know that one of the definitions of "courage" is "the willingness to do the right thing in spite of fear." Courage, then, is not necessarily the absence of fear.

made it through tne doors of a meeting tbe next day, was welcomed, and have been going back and sober since
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