How We Alcoholics Can Cry!

WHAT infinite, and usually unrecognized capacities we alcoholics have for feeling sorry for ourselves! It was, of course, far worse during the days when, because we felt we were misunderstood, slighted, abused and unappreciated, we fled to the numbing bottle and narcotized our imagined hurts in alcohol. Yet the capacity for self-pity, like the allergy to alcohol, will be always with us, it seems to me. It is a human trait, but one which can be pushed back, thrust out, by a constant program of self-discipline within the framework of the AA philosophy.