"catsruleok" <catsruleok@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:bf9vmu$l5e$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I apologise:
>
> - for having managed to stay off booze for the past few weeks without
having attended AA meetings;
>
> - for the fact that my success appears to greatly irritate you, and
finally
>
> - for deciding to stick around and therefore to continue to further
irritate you.
>
> Now, I'm thanking you for your robust questioning of and comments on
things I have said. I am happy
> to admit that you, as well as others here, are: making me question my
beliefs; opening my eyes and
> ears to many new ideas; and furthering my understanding of how alcoholism
can be successfully
> overcome. I'm very grateful for all these things. If me telling you that I
consider you to be a good
> influence on me makes you happy, then I , too, shall be happy.
>
> I hope you will continue to take an interest in my efforts to stay off
booze.
>
> All the very best
>
> JB

Irritate? Nothing could be further from the truth JB. Myself, I could go
without booze for periods of time, and if I were a better person, maybe I
might have quit forever, without the AA program. What AA is for me is not
about quitting drinking, it's about staying stopped, for several thousand 24
hour periods in a row, now.
I use the steps to give my thinking apparatus the best possible shot at
harmony in sobriety that I can possibly give it. The steps are tools only,
the fellowship is a group of people trying to use those tools, and they
share their experiences with each other.
Never once felt that AA had the last word on this deal, or will. It's the
best I can find for me at the present time.

Keep on keeping on, you are doing suberbly, and don't talk yourself out of
that fact.