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And for many alcoholics, when we're lonely, our best thinking is to just keep buildin' those walls higher.
For me it took the relentless example of loving acceptance in AA meetings to help me start pulling those walls down -- and if not immediately begin to build a bridge, then at least stand there on the shore and wave.
"... sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly..."
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How lucky for your that you found examples of loving kindness at meeting near you...they exist in dribs and drabs here, but most AAers are so self involved and stuck in a rut that they don't really know how to do this, least where I live...
(I used to ask every women in meetings and there weren't many, for their phone numbers, and you would have thought no one had ever asked this before....(they sure did it in California, sometimes they' even say hello there when they didn't know you ). Even when i dragged myself to a meeting in the midst of withdrawal...unreal.
Posted by: spiritosa | February 28, 2012 at 01:44 PM
Oh and I'm sober, two years now, thanks to finding my own spiritual path. I practice loving kindness but I can't force others to do it or have the expectations that they will.
If you are lucky, or scared enough, you can get sober alone if you really have to, and somtimes you just have to....
Posted by: spiritosa | February 28, 2012 at 01:46 PM