Old Time AA

I got this in an e-mail from a friend and thought I'd share it with you all!

1.It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it.

2- If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress.

3- An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating.

4- Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse.

5- A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000to find out that AA meetings are free.

6- The idea that alcoholics, drug addicts, sexaddicts, overeaters, smokers, etc, etc, should all just go to AA Meetings because a disease, is adisease, is a disease...was started by a treatment center that only had one van.

7- This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in AA.

8- If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy Drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an Alcoholic.

9- I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.

10- When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.

11- How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells,it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

12- From a newcomer reading the 'Promises' for the first time: "We will Comprehend the word cemetery and we will know peace."

13- If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough to be God!

14- If you want to quit drinking; you are going to have to quit drinking.

15-Newcomer: How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week? Old-timer: Gradually cut back until you get drunk. Then you'll know.

16- I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not an alcoholic.

17- Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go Away.

18-The difference between a problem drinker and an Alcoholic is that:
(A)When alcohol is taken away from the problem drinker, the problem goes away.
(B)When alcohol is taken away from the Alcoholic, the problem begins.

19- Before I came into AA, I was dead, but I did no tknow enough to lay down.

20- I drank when I was happy. I drank when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a reason to drink.

21- You don't have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don't want to get well, you ARE sick.

22- I can't do His will my way.

23- In order to change the way we feel we need to change the way we act. There is only one way to coast, and that is down hill.

24- The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get your emotions back.

25- All we ask is that you completely change your attitude as soon as Possible.

26- I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all.

27-Joy isn't the absence of pain -- it's the presence of God.