By going to meetings and rubbing elbows
with the new people in AA,
I find they have much to teach me.
Their problems are a little different,
and they haven't experienced the awful isolation
that many of us older folks did.
But they are better informed; they are more knowledgeable;
and I suspect they are smarter, because they learn faster.
Perhaps they don't have as far to go to get well as we did,
but their path is more cluttered, and the way isn't as clear.
So it is the same struggle for all of us, and we need each other.
We need each other's experience, strength, and hope,
regardless of age and length of sobriety.

Thought to Ponder....

Newcomer or long-timer,
we are all the same in our need for each other.

Recovery Related Acronym

C A R E = Comforting And Reassuring Each other.