AA Thought for the Day
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February 26, 2016
Generation Gap
I walked into my first AA meeting a month after my 70th birthday. . . Half-sober, I got myself to an AA meeting near my home.
My first reaction, as I stared at the people in the meeting was to flee. Unwittingly, I had walked into a young people's meeting.
The leader, a girl named Kathy, was fourteen and one-half years old, with six months' sober.
Muttering, I turned toward the exit and found myself face to face with a young man, who stuck out a hand.
"My name is Frank." "I'm not staying. I'm in the wrong place." He got a whiff of my breath. "I'd say you aren't."
That evening, I learned that the generation gap works both ways.
While I had as much chance for recovery as a girl of 14, she was as likely to die from alcoholism as I was.
- Time To Start Living, AA Pamphlet P-7, pp. 6-10
Thought to Ponder . . .
It's never too late to be what I might have been.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together.
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
February 26, 2016
Generation Gap
I walked into my first AA meeting a month after my 70th birthday. . . Half-sober, I got myself to an AA meeting near my home.
My first reaction, as I stared at the people in the meeting was to flee. Unwittingly, I had walked into a young people's meeting.
The leader, a girl named Kathy, was fourteen and one-half years old, with six months' sober.
Muttering, I turned toward the exit and found myself face to face with a young man, who stuck out a hand.
"My name is Frank." "I'm not staying. I'm in the wrong place." He got a whiff of my breath. "I'd say you aren't."
That evening, I learned that the generation gap works both ways.
While I had as much chance for recovery as a girl of 14, she was as likely to die from alcoholism as I was.
- Time To Start Living, AA Pamphlet P-7, pp. 6-10
Thought to Ponder . . .
It's never too late to be what I might have been.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together.
Thanks
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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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