Two weeks is not much time, I know. But two weeks means there have been fourteen days where I just didn’t drink today. There have been periods in my life when I have not drank – even once a 4+ year period – yet all those other times were times that I did it by myself and I didn’t have the knowledge, the courage, or the fellowship of my new friends at AA to guide me along the way. I am attending lots of meetings (I have one in about half an hour right down the road) and I’m meeting people from all walks of life, yet we all have one thing in common – the desire to lead the life of sobriety. All of the individuals that I have met in AA I’ve known for less than two weeks, yet I feel closer to many of these men and women than some of the people that have been in my life for twenty years.
The fellowship and the common foe mean a great deal to me. I’ll expand upon this more in a later post, but for now, I’m out the door.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping me to not drink today.
dan