Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. It’s one that we are told that we should have in order to be a more complete person. Messages like “have pride in what you do.” “Have pride in the way you look.” “Have pride in your accomplishments.” These are all valuable to us, in order to achieve, and it’s an attribute that serves us well for the most part. But it’s also one that can go to extremes, when coupled with an over inflated ego, this can lead us down a dark path. Feeling proud is a temporary feeling that needs to be fed, causing the need for more to allow us to continue to feed our egos.
For we Alcoholics, suffer from such a need for acceptance that we go to extremes to ignite these feelings. But most of us have another extreme, which is low self-esteem, increasing the need for more self rightous inflation. This is where alcohol is a great liberator of self-esteem, it elevates us until it destroys us. The principals bring us back to the boundy line of life, where we find balance and gives us sound reasoning to know that pride is not always a virtue and that pride last only so long, but humility never loses it’s virtue.
Peace Out: M copyright 2015

We Alcoholics are taught to communicate with each other. Just think back to 1935 when Bill W. had to go to use a pay phone to find another Alcoholic to talk with. How would our society have ever come about if he were texting or emailing the message? How would he have met Bob? Would they have spoken for the hours that they shared, or even related the true intent of the emotions of two desperate men grasping for help out of their dilemma?
In our modern day of technology, there is still that need to talk to one another. The mordern tools are amazing, but it is 10 times more difficult to convey the true emotions of desperation. I have been writing my blog for almost a year, and many times I see by the response that I may not be clear enough in delivering the point. That is on me, and not the reader. But the necessity to continue is still there.
We as a society have been reduced and become accustomed to “sound bites.” We Alcoholics, sponsers and members, must remember that the “New man or women” needs to be cared for on a human level, there is nothing greater than reaching out your hand and making the new person feel like you want them there. We need to feel apart of to reel us out of the lonely room of isolation and despair. Let us remember that a text message or an email is not as valuable as a hug or handshake. The message needs to be communicated on the most basic levels possible. I am guilty of not always being adherent to what I am saying, but I know that the real message is “one Alcoholic sharing with another.” I must remember to go up to the new man and say welcome, glad your here. Our code of “love and tolerance ” should be transmitted through actions. Actions can only be shown not delivered.
Peace Out: M copyright 2015