GREAT that you're working through the steps. Having gone through step 1 and 2 like you've said, you've probably started to see that it wasn't really your own drinking that really put you into a tail spin, it was your inability to live life sober and enjoyably at the same time. The inability to be comfortable sober = drinking for an alcoholic.
The deeper you go into the steps the more of your alcoholism you'll see - how you (assuming you're like me, I should say) just weren't really comfortable sober. To see that others may suffer from the exact same thing will turn from a slap in your face into an event that will bring up feelings of compassion for someone who may have the same problem you have.
Best of all, since we can recover from alcoholism, pretty soon it won't matter who's drinking, when they drink, how much or any of that stuff. You'll be "in a position of neutrality, safe and protected." Folks drinking around you will matter to you about as much as people not drinking around you.....it just won't really make a difference either way.