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August 1972

To Be Alive Again

To taste, savor, feel the pains and joys of reality

WHAT A DIFFERENCE becoming sober in AA has made in my life! Wouldn't you say it revealed a measure of sanity to realize It hurts to fall down sober, and to blame myself now when I fall down, instead of blaming an innocent bystander ten feet away? Odd, isn't it, how much wider the doorways are now, and how few bruises show?

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