I used to tell people up at the treatment center where we did the groups “You know of any 50 year old football players?”

“No!”

“Why not?”

“Too old -beat up”

Well it’s exactly the same thing without 🍸ism. Even a fresh body that has aged will not have the resistance of a younger bof a younger body -but a body that is aged and battered and bruised… The older and alcoholic is and the more and the more damage they undergo… the less resistance they have to to the beating alcohol administers to them.

Why can’t tipping a bottle to our mouths be the 1st thing that goes instead of the last thing that goes with regard to the progression?

It doesn’t take any character whatsoever to tip a bottle of booze to our lips and drink it down.

When we are born, provided we have a safe and healthy environment, the line is almost vertical. With age.. and as we start to indulge in certain pleasures (do you realize that when we indulge in pleasures that vertical line starts to tilt?)… Smoking, drinking, unhealthy foods, drugs… And the more of these things you indulge in the more that line veers towards the horizontal. Every alcoholic reaches a peak in their life where the combination of their ability to function coupled with their drinking reathey’re drinking reaches an Apex. This is the place where every alcoholic would love to stay.* Once they reach that Apex they go down from there-sometimes quickly sometime slowly (it will always materialize if we work for it).

I was told in a class at the University that the reason people get sick when they go to war is is not because of the water but because of the cooking grease being reused over and over again. I was also told in that class that one of the worst things for the immune system is a lack of sleep -A lack of proper rest.

You ever know of any Alcoholics who got a steady 8 hours of sleep per night and to eat a healthy diet? Alcohol and drugs are not on the nutritional pyramid. Alcohol and drugs are not a necessary part of of life.

No where in Alcoholics Anonymous does it 🚫 acts of kindness and consideration towards others.

Every time you choose to smoke a cigarette or eat an unhealthy meal you take time off of your lifespan.

No matter how bad life gets -life itself never loses it’s value and should never be taken by us -only by God!

*No matter where you start off in your alcoholism -alcoholism, it always progresses for the worse- even if you started out powerless -it will only get worse from there. If you didn’t start out powerless -you will eventually end up there.

As Alcoholics, we’ll have to work very hard to become sick. Think about it!

As alcoholics come we were spending good money to get sick. Think about it!

By the end of my drinking and drugging I was using about every 45 minutes. The body can only take so much and when you reach a point that goes beyond it…. That’s where you begin to face death in the eye. Increasing amounts of drugs and alcohol in ever decreasing intervals between -will ultimately result in death.

The 12 steps are for people who have lost the natural ability to have a relationship with their creator. They must work vigorously and consciously…

That which does not come naturally will require a conscious effort.

3 circles, each one inside the other. Each with a principle pertaining to pertaining to the alcoholic model.

3 circles, each one inside the other. The inner one is the things you are currently capable of doing. The second one represents the things you can with some effort acquire the ability to do. The 3rd circle is the things you can with some effort acquire the ability to do but will never make the effort. And the 4th circle represents the things you will never be able to do no matter how hard you work at them.

There are more ways to do things wrong than there are right ways to do things right -which is why perhaps more often than not we get it wrong.

Man often comes close, even close enough… But very seldomly does it get it completely right.

For every action there is an opposite but equal reaction. I don’t know if this is the same law I am speaking of. What I mean to say is that every action we take is linked to to a consequence, reverberation… Anything we do in the universe has an effect. Yeast. A specific effect that may or may not be felt by us personally to the extent it appears to matter to us. Then comes in the time factor -things reverberate through time and space, not just space – So an action we take today may not be felt for a millisecond, an hour come a week come on our deathbed… or even at the time of judgment.

Something is always happening to us – And they can be divided into 2 categories:

•Consequential

•Inconsequential