Do We Really Have a Choice ?

SO MANY TIMES at meetings, I hear people say, "I have a choice every morning when I get up. I have a choice whether to drink or not. And today, I choose not to." For myself, I have to look at what the Big Book has told me--that each day, when I get up, I don't have a choice whether I drink or not. I'm like the man who had lost his legs, as the book says; I will never grow new ones. Also "The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink." If I believe I will be an alcoholic to the day I die, I must also believe I have lost my power of choice over alcohol to the day I die. The only choice that is mine is "to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools" laid at my feet--the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.