Sandy B.
| Speaker | Sandy B. |
| Event | SECAD Convention |
| Location | Atlanta, GA |
| Year | 1983 |
| Era | Classic Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 43:06 |
| RS Number | RS-G131 |
Transcript
It is a pleasure to be back here again and to still be sober. I came into Alcoholics Anonymous on Pearl Harbor Day in 1964 and it's almost Pearl Harbor Day again, so if I can stay sober till Wednesday, I'll catch up to my friend Hal M. and finish 19 years in this wonderful fellowship. And for that, I am extremely grateful. And I generally start my talk by saying that I did come in in 1964 and I haven't been drunk since my first meeting in Manassas, Virginia, and I owe it all to not drinking. And that is exactly the reason that I haven't been drunk, is due to not drinking. I don't think we need to explore that any further, but if you look at the slogans in a lot of the AA literature, it doesn't specifically say, don't drink anywhere. I don't know if you noticed that. We have easy does it and there but for the grace of God and we assume that people will pick up on the not drinking part. But a lot of us have ratty little minds when we come in and hell, if they don't tell us directly, we might coast a while on the theory that no one told me specifically not to do that, so I'll be the one, in case there's anybody new here tonight, to let the cat out of the bag that if you find that you are continuing to get drunk, check your drinking. I would just see if you aren't, don't have a glass in your hand and if it isn't getting in your mouth then you're actually swallowing it because this was one of the great revelations of the fellowship is to learn very wise things, you know, like drinking gets you drunk. I think I understood that on the intellectual level, but I don't think I understood that it applied to me. This is what I think happens in the program, there's so many of these ideas that suddenly have our name on them and they take a new meaning and this was one of them. If you had asked me back in my drinking days why I got drunk, I had a lot of reasons and none of them had to do with drinking. They had to do with family problems or they had to do with a boss…
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