Justifiable" Anger

I HAVE JUST COMPLETED a 24-hour period which is one of the most important I've experienced in my search for recuperation in AA. It isn't a birthday nor any other kind of anniversary, nor have I resisted yet another compulsion to take a drink. During the past 24 hours, I have quite simply taken a giant step toward humility, for me, and have moved noticeably closer to the kind of AA love I want to exhibit and to feel. For the first time in the eleven months since I took my last drink--eleven months of daily AA meetings, eleven months of studying the AA program and struggling to practice it--I have managed to hold out against "justifiable" anger, something I can no longer afford, as I have been told time and time again. Some of us arc just slow learners, I guess.