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| Being involved in the recovery community is like being in a river. One can swim upstream, downstream, cross-stream or simply float -- in all cases the river inevitably carries one along it's course. Standing on the bank watching the river does not offer the same result. my sponsor |
I can safely say that I have grown more tolerant in the past few months. Perhaps it's because I've finally accepted that not everyone wants what I have? The rigorous honesty and scrutiny that I had to subject my character to is NOT what everyone else necessarily wants. I heard somewhere that, "Honesty gets us sober, Tolerance keeps us sober." I understand, now, how easy--and lazy--it was to perceive recovering AA people as pretentious know-it-alls based on such narrow minded constraints of self-righteousness.
There are varying degrees of sobriety and I'm striving for the "walking around" kind, namely because I have done for others all my life and MY idea of 12th Step stuff now is to, walk the walk so I don't have to talk the talk. Service, for me, is to ultimately become the spiritual person MY HP has invited me to become. I think I'd end up in jail if I had to actually sponsor some damned drunk--ESPECIALLY if he was like ME!
