The 24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 37, All Are Welcome!
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24 Hour Club Sign up Sheet Part 37, All Are Welcome!
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The Actor
Any life run on self-will can hardly be a success. On that basis we are almost always in
collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.
Most people try to live by self-propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to
run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the
rest of the players in his own way.
If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show
would be great. Everybody, including himself, would be pleased.
Life would be wonderful. In trying to make these arrangements our actor may sometimes be
quite virtuous.
He may be kind, considerate, patient, generous; even modest and self- sacrificing. On the other
hand, he may be mean, egotistical, selfish and dishonest. But, as with most humans, he
is more likely to have varied traits.
What usually happens?
The show doesn't come off very well. He begins to think life doesn't treat him right. He decides
to exert himself more. He becomes, on the next occasion, still more demanding or gracious,
as the case may be.
Still the play does not suit him. Admitting he may be somewhat at fault, he is sure that other
people are more to blame. He becomes angry, indignant, self-pitying.
What is his basic trouble? Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be kind?
Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world
if he only manages well?
Is it not evident to all the rest of the players that these are the things he wants?
And do not his actions make each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they can get out
of the show?
Is he not, even in his best moments, a producer of confusion rather than harmony?
Selfishness — self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a
hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our
fellows and they retaliate.
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and
the alcoholic (addict) is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so.
Above everything, we alcoholics (addicts) must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us!
Above Reprinted with Permission Of AA World Services, inc
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Are we being selfish and trying to run the whole show today?
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