Working Toward Sanity

TAKING THE First Step didn't seem all that difficult for me, because I am the descendant of three generations of alcoholics. Caught up in my family's denial system, I never realized how much alcohol had devastated my life until I came to AA. After that, armed with facts about the progression of my disease, all I had to do was look at the statistics and my own past any time I wanted a drink. I knew without question that for me, "to drink is to die." Even with that knowledge, it took one slip after two years to make my surrender complete.