rosie read and post
10-08-2003, 08:17 AM
October 8, 2003
Willpower
Really getting a fair picture of AA
may be one instance in which willpower
can be put to very good use.
We know for sure that alcoholics
do have tremendous willpower.
Consider the ways we could manage to get a drink
in defiance of all visible possibilities.
Merely to get up some mornings --
with a rusting cast-iron stomach,
all your teeth wearing tiny sweaters,
and each hair electrified --
takes willpower many nondrinkers rarely dream of.
Once you've gotten up with your head,
on those certain mornings,
the ability to carry it all through the day
is further evidence of fabulous strength of will.
Oh yes, real drinkers have real willpower.
Reprinted from Living Sober, Page 84, with permission of A.A. World
Services, Inc.
Willpower
Really getting a fair picture of AA
may be one instance in which willpower
can be put to very good use.
We know for sure that alcoholics
do have tremendous willpower.
Consider the ways we could manage to get a drink
in defiance of all visible possibilities.
Merely to get up some mornings --
with a rusting cast-iron stomach,
all your teeth wearing tiny sweaters,
and each hair electrified --
takes willpower many nondrinkers rarely dream of.
Once you've gotten up with your head,
on those certain mornings,
the ability to carry it all through the day
is further evidence of fabulous strength of will.
Oh yes, real drinkers have real willpower.
Reprinted from Living Sober, Page 84, with permission of A.A. World
Services, Inc.