The Yes and the No of It

AS CHILDREN two of the first words which appeared in our limited, monosyllabic vocabulary were "Yes" and "No." At that time of life we used these words in the innocence of simple desires--an uninhibited "For" or "Against." When was it, along the line of our developing maturity, that we bogged down in the matter of will power in the application of "Yes" and "No" to more complicated choices? Surely the active alcoholic--and even the sober AA member--seems all too frequently, when asked a question or offered a choice of action, to come up with the wrong answer.