My Alcoholism & Recovery

Well first and foremost I could not stop drinking on my own. I tried for many years to stop on my own as I hated the though of being in something like AA. That part goes away after a while.

But why still go many years later?

I have only one answer that really helps me. Bear in mind that I am as selfish as they come, so no I don’t go to help the newcommer, if that happens it is a by product of me just going to meeting. I no longer go to stop drinking, I stopped a few years ago now. I don’t go to stay stopped - I don’t think my world will implode if I stopped going to AA meeting.

The why I go to AA meetings is very simple - to remember. And no don’t get carried away, it is not anything to do with remembering anything to do with my drinking. I live now a very busy life and I just forget the simple things - for example my predisposition not to do what is good for me. That is the kind of stuff that I need reminding of, the little stuff I call it - but hell it is very important to remember this for me to have a happy content life today.

So why do you still go to meeting?