Let's Take an Impartial Look

HONEST confession is the starting point in the AA program. The very basis of anyone's start toward sobriety is recognizing the fact that he may have been thinking, speaking, and acting without due consideration for others. We must take an impartial look at that person in the mirror. It will free us from worries, anxieties, jealousies, and hates. . .all these emotional disturbances make us drink. Most of us are amazingly acute at detecting faults in others, but for some reason we are rarely of our own short-comings. In fact, we don't even like to think that we have any. And to avoid critical self-analysis, we stumble through life in a constant rut, making the same mistakes for the same reason over and over again. . .simply because we do not realize or take the trouble to look at the person in the mirror.