The only reason to drink
Staying sober
“There’s only one real reason I can ever have for taking a drink, and that’s because I want to.”
This remark at a meeting sums up AA’s position on why we drink. We never really drink because of pressures and troubles. We drink because we want to, because we feel like taking a drink.
It’s true that a serious crisis, like going into bankruptcy, may make us conscious of an urger to drink. But we know that we’re also likely to have such urges in the face of good fortune. The alcoholic who would drink over a bankruptcy would also probably get drunk if he or she won the lottery.
By refusing to accept all of these alleged “reasons” for drinking, AA simplified our problem so we can deal with it. We either want to drink or we don’t want to drink, period. Even if we want to drink… and some members do.. AA can show us how to stay sober and eventually lose such desires.
Nothing has the power to make me drink today. It is only my own willingness that can destroy my sobriety.
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The only reason to drink is because I wanted to drink…I can accept that…I remember trying to quit for weeks sometimes months on end but when I got to the point of failure it was because more than anything else “I wanted to drink that drink”…I could taste it…Smell it…Feel the burn…Then the day came to where I wanted to quit more than I wanted that drink…At that point I realized that “I” couldn’t do it…I had to have help from a power greater than myself…Which for me is God…I had a very visual & auditory experience with God & the fact that this was my time to act…So greatly out of fear but mostly because I had no other options…I surrendered…& at that point I went over to the winning side…That is what surrender means…Not losing but choosing to join the winning team…When I became humble enough that I could turn things over to God is when my term of sobriety began…3 1/2 years now…545…24 hour days…To some that doesn’t seem like a lot but to others it is unbelievable…You know the ones that just got their 5th Desire Chip…I post this blog for the main reason of you can do this…Sobriety is a choice not a curse…I keep what I have by trying to give back what I can…May you all have a blessed day…Kenney
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