Daily Reflections
 

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EXACTLY ALIKE

Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright
spot of our lives.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89

A man came to the meeting drunk, interrupted the speakers, stood
up and took his shirt off, staggered loudly back and forth for
coffee, demanded to talk, and eventually called the group's
secretary an unquotable name and walked out. I was glad he was
there--once again I saw what I still could be. I don't have to
be drunk to want to be the exception and the center of attention.
I have often felt abused and responded abusively when I was
simply being treated as a garden variety human being. The more
the man tried to insist he was different, the more I realized
that he and I were exactly alike.


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