AA Thought for the Day

Celebrities are brought on stage to work the dubious
show-biz routine of topping one another publicly
about how sober they've become.
It's not just the obvious fact that they have feet of clay
the same as everybody else and may end up
by not setting such a grand example after all
which makes the exercise so dangerous.
It's that the whole thing has the effect of reducing
their revelations (which may indeed be sincere)
into nothing more than talk show gabble.
The scariest part of turning recovery into just another
celebrity act is that . . . it tends to glamorize drunkenness
almost exactly as an ad does and makes it seem
that being a poor sot is somehow an especially
interesting and even superior condition.

Thought to Ponder....

Humility, expressed by anonymity,
is the greatest safeguard that AA can ever have.

Recovery Related Acronym

A A = Adventurers Anonymous.