One of the things we do here is to receive our anniversary chips on the last Friday of the month. I know I will at the end of January, because I had gotten sober on the 6th of Jan. many years ago.
The reason we do this is not about praise for us, but as an example to attendees, hopefully to encourage them to get sober or stay sober. It’s part of what I learned in here. The Twelfth Step.
But not only that, but the encouragement we all need to continue to help us to stay sober a day at a time. And that backs me up to being open to helpful to continue to be humble and not full of pride. I have to simply do what I could do to help others to remain sober or to get sober.
There is a about our practicing humility. I know I can do this with what I say seriously, and then end it in making fun of myself. Hopefully I do this often and it makes most of the attendees at meetings to laugh at me. In fact I do that often, since it makes me to laugh at myself. Often I repeat what I say to myself each morning, when I look in the mirror and say, “You klutz your nuts!” And that often gets others laughing at me. It’s what gets me laughing at myself. It helps me to stay positive and not negative, what I need to do one day at a time.
Anyway I need to do all of this to help, not just myself, but anyone, who needs this to also help them. I think of it as being open to being grateful to my Higher Power for all He has done for me. And I know this is part of what I have done to give thanks to all those old timers, who helped me along the way. And even those who help me today.