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October 1965

The Mid-timer

On being neither new nor old in AA<lbAre you finding it increasingly difficult to remember what the shakes were like?

HAVE you begun to feel comfortable in your sobriety? Is it becoming habit-forming? Have you been group secretary at least twice, and are you looking forward to your first area meeting as GSR? Do you feel much older and wiser than the current crop of newcomers, and yet can't identify with those "remember when-ers" with the long gray beards who have been sober for eons? Relax, chum, there's nothing wrong with you. You're a mid-timer!

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