For the first time we had begun to sense
that the character of AA was changing.
We were beginning to have success with milder alcoholics
and even some potential alcoholics.
In the first years, those of us who sobered up in AA
had been grim and utterly hopeless cases,
almost without exception.
But now younger folks began to appear.
Lots of people turned up who still had jobs
and homes and health and even good social standing. . .
We found they did not have to hit
every possible bottom there was in order to admit
they were licked. . .
They had "hit bottom" then and there
and so were spared years of anguish.
- Bill W., July 1955.

Thought to Ponder....

When we try to control our drinking we have already lost control.

Recovery Related Acronym

K I S S = Keep It Simple, Surrender.