The above is a really neat article by Thomas Lynch-it may be old, I don't know, but I feel it's worth sharing if you haven't read it. It answers a lot for me-I used to see AA all wrong, not sure what my opinion was exactly, but I felt it had to be a cult or something. I wanted no part of AA and was not happy when counselors advised me to go-but as I was about alocholism itself, I was underinformed about AA! Mr. Lynch says it all with his last sentence-it IS a gift!
Thank you, I could really relate to that article. When I first walked into AA, the first thing that made me scared was that everyone smiled at me. Looking back, I think my thinking went something like, if they knew me, they certainly would not be smiling!!!
Oh Well, it does take what it takes to get in here, ane the misconceptions that I drew in the beginning, were chizzled away, by my own decent into the the Disease.
When you feel bad enough, hopeless enough, and desperate enough, even a smile will not bother you.
Toni
It reminds me of a line from a Richard Braugtegen poem: "Desperation IS the only thing that can cut through anything!"