Complacency Is Insidious

THE OLDER, more experienced members of AA tell us that complacency is one of the greatest single enemies of sobriety and that, once started, it progresses as rapidly and insidiously as alcoholism itself. Very often, unfortunately, complacency first takes root in the nonalcoholic mate. I'd like to try to bring out how easily complacency can steal upon us; how, once it gets a foothold, it changes our entire mental attitude, not only toward the alcoholic, but toward AA itself; the havoc complacency brings in its wake; and finally, what measures we can take to guard against it.