Rediscovering Laughter

THE FIRST time I heard laughter coming from an AA room, I had the thought (and thoughts were not easy to come by at that stage of my sobriety) "What are these people laughing at? What's so funny?" Nothing had been funny in my life for a while, and now--now that I had to give up drinking forever (not knowing about "one day at a time" yet)--the idea of ever laughing again seemed impossible.