Everyone in Alcoholics Anonymous comes in with their own gifts and their oand their own liabilities. Honesty seemed to be one of my strengths while acceptance was a very bad weakness -and still is. Some people come out of traumatic childhood with a highly limited ability to accept (or conform) while others seem to develop a great sense of acceptance or conformity.
Some people from dysfunctional families turn out to be just like their parents while others turn out to be the opposite -extremes.
Not everyone in Alcoholics Anonymous can be a great sponsor or is…
For many years in Alcoholics Anonymous I was afraid to work with others, afraid I didn’t have anything to offer… *Afraid I didn’t have the right attitude for the job. For many years I was afraid to go to the soup kitchen – Fear, falls evidence appearing real kept me stagnant for many years in various areas. My advice to all people knew in any walk of life or in this case, alcohol it’s anonymous is to get involved as quickly as possible. The only way to get past fear of the unknown is through action, through experience -to know! As Spock might have said “We are all born unknowing”. Think of the confidence and the change in attitude we have acquired through experiences -whether they have been thrust upon us or whether they have been voluntarily….Let’s face it come many if not most of our childhood experiences were thrust upon us.They largely determined the people we are -or at least the fears we have overcome; and some of the fears we have adopted -I suppose. Something else Spock said, “For everything there is at 1st time”. Something God told me many years ago “For everything there is a last time”. Current “Everything for which there is a first time, there shall be a last time -as well. MAKE IT COUNT!!!!”
*From day one in alcoholic’s anonymous every person has something to offer. Find your niche but don’t limit it to only your strength. It’s. Some of the greatest achievers in lit’s to chevers in life did so in areas where they had little or no seeming talent or ability. They say that 90% of talent is hard work-Capish? That being said, you may not think you’re very good at this or that -but shirley you can find something that you are good at. Start there -wherever there happens to be. And the way a person finds out where “there” is is by trying; by starting from right where you’re at; by starting with what’s right in front of you 🤷‍♂️ “I KNOW NO OTHER WAY” -CARTER (2005).