Directions to AA

[MajestyJo]

Or to any other Fellowship you choose. Alcohol is a drug!

Directions to AA: Just go straight to hell and make a U-turn.

AA: Being a part of something is more important than being the center of attention.

AA is the only place where you can walk into a room full of strangers and reminisce.

AA romance.... the odds are good... but the goods are odd.

AA: Look for a way in; not for a way out.

AA: We are not reformed drunks, but informed alcoholics

AA has no fixed address -- you can take it with you.

AA: We are here for a reason, not for the season

AA Groups: An AA group will be judged by the worst behavior of its members

Before I came to AA I was dead, but did not know enough to lie down.

In AA there are no losers -- just slow winners

Alcoholic (as defined by self): A piece of crap that the universe revolves around.

Alcoholic: Someone who refuses to give up a life of failure without a fight.

Alcoholic: A person who when s/he goes to a wedding, wants to be the bride and when s/he goes to a funeral, wants to be the corpse.

An alcoholic is someone who wants to be held while isolating.

Alcoholic: "I may not be much, but I'm all I think about."

Alcoholic: "If I could drink like a normal drinker, I'd drink all the time!"

Alcoholics burn their bridges in front of them.

An alcoholic is someone who finds something that works and then stops doing it.

If you think that you are an alcoholic, chances are you are.

An alcoholic is a man or woman with two feet planted firmly in mid-air.

Non-alcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals; alcoholics change their goals to meet their behavior.

An alcoholic can be in the gutter and still look down on people.

High bottoms have trap doors

If the cure works, chances are you have the disease.

Three most dangerous words for an alcoholic:....."I've been thinking"

[MajestyJo]

Choice

from: "A Day's Plan"

"Every day I ask God to kindle within me the fire of His love, so that love, burning bright and clear, will illuminate my thinking and permit me to better do His will. Throughout the day, as I allow outside circumstances to dampen my spirits, I ask God to sear my consciousness with the awareness that I can start my day over any time I choose; a hundred times, if necessary."

© 1990, Daily Reflections, page 80

This is a solution that has worked many times for me over the years. A day can start any time, each day is a new beginning, so have a great one.

It never ceases to amaze me how people can make the decision to stay stuck, to continue acting out in old patterns, and allow themselves to slip into depression and self-pity and not take action before it gets to the wallowing stage. This program is one of freedom. I don't have to live that way anymore.

So many people, don't know they have choices.

I know I didn't know how to have fun. I didn't know how to "lighten' up" and not take life so seriously as it says in Tradition Four. I didn't know how to let my inner child come out and play, let alone anything about giving her permission to do so.

I didn't know I could choose the reactions, the actions and the moods, etc. that I had to people, places and things.