Hello guys, This week we begin on part 2 of the personal stories in the back of the Big Book - They Stopped in Time. These are the stories of men & women who "have never reached the advanced stages of alcoholism, though given time all might have." There is peculiar old idea I used to have relating to this. Back in 2006 -ish, I knew absolutely zero about alcoholism or AA but I knew I didn't drink like everyone else and I was sick & tired of being sick & tired. All of my efforts to curb my drinking habit on my own had failed. So after a very polite suggestion from my ex-wife, I called in to a Rehab center at a local hospital and they told me to come in the next day first thing in the morning. Suddenly I felt a rather irrational fear, I wasn't afraid that they'd put me in rehab, actually I was afraid that they would somehow think I wasn't bad enough to give me treatment. After all, no way was I as bad as those...
This blog is a compilation of commentaries about AA, alcoholism, sobriety and recovery. They were created as part of a weekly email series I send out to the AA Wed Night Riverside Men's Group in Escazú, San José, Costa Rica. We are a Men's Big Book and AA-related literature study group with the aim of expanding our knowledge and understanding of the principles set forth by the book Alcoholics Anonymous.