Constantly stay strong by refusing addictions. Accept the proud feeling of the constant success you will experience each day. If we constantly complain how much of a struggle sobriety is it will make us weak. Nothing is more insulting when this happens. Nothing is more embarrassing when we relapse. Even worse living through it, even worse facing our friends. Let’s say you attended alcoholics anonymous meetings for a few months. You relapsed and returned to the same meetings again. I would feel very low. If the group of 12 steppers would ask you why did you relapse what will your answer be. All the time and effort the group devoted to you didn’t you learn enough about how to stay sober for the rest of your life. Alcoholics Anonymous is a powerful source to learn from,gain strength,providing us with a program to live daily and by doing so will keep us sober for life. With all these resources in front of you why did you relapse. By relapsing the group did not fail and not your friends either. Only you did. Let’s talk further about failure. You spent months in meetings voluntarily or by request of the judge or for whatever other reason. How you got there does not matter but what matters is that you absorbed massive amounts of knowledge and did not learn how to stay sober. The knowledge would have taught you how to resist the temptation of addictions. All of this information never stayed in your mind. In one ear and out the other. Were you asleep during every meeting? Did you think being drunk is more fun? Better to live on your feet than on your knees. Walk proudly with your head up than on your knees crying and praying with excessive remorse. No one is listening to you and I’ll bet not even to yourself. To avoid this problem listen closer and learn and live and practice daily that Alcoholics Anonymous program. See ya’ next time
