"I'd much rather be living my life away from the program than being cooped up in a meeting."
theres a difference between the program and meetings.
but if ya want to walk away from the program- a simple set of prinicples we are to practice in all our affairs- go for it.
None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did. We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs. All of us spend much of our spare time in the sort of effort which we are going to describe.
any time ive been to metings and I started whining about them, its because I was lookin at what I could get out of them and not what I could put in.
nothing wrong with getting a pen, writing a book, and starting a new recovery program,too. theres plenty of room for it and much needed.