I got sober in AA, and, like a miracle,
the warm flood of reality I had feared for so long
flowed over me, and I was no longer afraid...
I began to have concern for others.
This word "concern," along with
its sister consideration, was an alien thing to me...
I began, in early sobriety, to feel
compassion for other drunks...
This compassion, a feeling accompanied later by love,
opened up the door to a huge fortress within me
which had been forever locked...
I was becoming, as I heard it put once,
"weller than well."

Thought to Ponder....

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.

Recovery Related Acronym

S O B E R = Son Of a Basket; Everything's Real.