Paradoxes of Sobriety

September 17, 1997 marked my thirty-second year in this great Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In all those years, if I've had any bad days, I can't remember them. AA has taught me that I'm the architect of my own success or happiness. The quality of my sobriety is up to me--it will be what I want it to be. The truth is that my alcoholism is the best thing that ever happened to me, because it brought me to AA and this wonderful new way of life.