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There
are a lot of little sloagans that you
hear in AA meetings accross the world.
At this time I would like to address the
phrase "Take what you
like and leave the rest". I'm
sure you've all heard it. I hate that
phrase, and here's why.
For a long
time in my sobriety, I was doing exactly
that: taking what I liked
and leaving the rest. Consequently, I
usually took home a belly full of
coffee, and nothing more.
When
people started talking about getting
honest, reading the big book, or working
the steps; I didn't like it, and left
it.
What about "No pain,
no gain"? Cringe! Hopefully, we
will gain from life's painfull
experiences, but it doesn't always have
to be that way. One thing AA has enabled
me to do, is learn from the
experience of others, and thereby spare
myself a lot of pain.
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