A good friend of mine and I were talking today about this program. We were in the same class in college and have been friends for a long long time. He has 31 years in the program and I’m a few years in just ahead of him. We spend a lot of time together and share an awful lot. We’ve done this for years. We talk.
This process, aside from friendship, has revealed to both of us some of what keeps us sober. What we discovered was that over the years we have been into action almost without knowing it. This flow of talk has kept both of us up to date along the path laid out for us in the BB. It’s more than just talk. We found that we have been walking as well as talking.
In essence what we were doing was taking an inventory of where we were and what we have been doing. And what we have been doing is, through a lot of open sharing, is constantly putting the steps into action in our everyday lives. From the first through the twelfth steps. On a regular basis we have been undergoing a change without our awareness, until today, when we found ourselves going through a case by case examination of what we have been doing. All this because we have been in a constant conversation almost everyday.
To me it just illustrates the words that we can’t do this alone. We’re not supposed to. We all of us have to reach out for support in doing what it is that will add to the maintenance our spiritual condition which is so necessary on a daily basis to keep us sober.
The other thing that we both recognize is that none of this is without humor. We have helped each other to keep from taking ourselves too seriously.
Anway, I was thinking about this and cannot tell you how grateful I am for this experience and how I hope all of you have the same experiences in your daily lives. Barbs we throw at each other and all which help us to experience ego deflation on a a regular basis.