I was thinking this morning of something someone said the other day. Not a new man, who is enthusiastic for the program, because it has freed him of the booze. No, this was a man who has been here for at least thirty years. A guy you would think was bored and tired of the “same old same old”.
And what did he say, when he was called on. Enthusiastically he said that AA was the best thing that had ever happened to him.
Is it the best thing that has ever happened to me? You bet your life. I know that it allowed me to find a way to change my whole life over into something far better than I could have ever hoped for. I knew that when he said that he felt the same way.
A friend of mine and I were talking about this man’s statement the other day. What we talked about were other people. If it hadn’t been for AA I would never have learned how to treat and deal with other people. Even though none of this is perfect, it is better than anything I could imagine.
I learned from AA and my sponsor, that if I didn’t change my attitude toward others I was probably doomed to die an acoholic death. I was cynical, sarcastic, angry, and resentful to others. Someitmes I look back in wonder and ask myself how this all got turned around.
I can’t help but think that this reversal of attitude toward others is one of the best things which has happened to me…and to others.
All of this is the result of appllying the twelve steps to my life. Because of them and what I learned from others in here, I enjoy a life of peace, serenity, and hope. I enjoy my sobriety.
I could never have conceived that on the night before I took my last drink.
All this because of the grace of the God of my understanding.
Just thinking a sober thought today about the best thing that ever happened to me.
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