Saturday January 24, 2026

Thought of the Day  

 "Our disease isolated us... Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking,

 we cut ourselves off from the outside world." 

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  Many of us came to the program convinced that our feelings, our wants, and our needs were of the utmost importance to everyone. We had practiced a lifetime of self-seeking, self-centered behavior and believed it was the only way to live.

That self-centeredness doesn't cease just because we stop drinking or using drugs.

 Perhaps we attend our first function and are positive that everyone in the room is watching us, judging us, and condemning us.  It helps reconnect us to the life we were meant to live, drawing us out of our isolation. We stop lying to ourselves about our condition; we admit our powerlessness and the unmanageability of our lives. We develop faith that our lives can improve, that recovery is possible, and that happiness is not permanently beyond our grasp. We get honest; we stop hiding; we "show up and tell the truth," no matter what. And as we do, we establish the ties that connect our individual lives to the larger life around us.

 Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied. We scorned the lives we saw others living, surely beyond our grasp. Worst of all, we told ourselves there was nothing wrong with us, even though we knew we were desperately ill. Our connection with the world, and with reality itself, was severed. Our lives lost meaning, and we withdrew further and further from reality. 

Committment for the Day

 I am a part of the life around me.

I will practice my program to strengthen my connection to my world. 

One Day At A Time