The People Principle

I'm tired of all the goody, goody stories about AA and how simply great and wonderful everybody is. Let's be real for a minute. In our drinking we all did our share of running away from reality and pretending things weren't really "that bad." They tell us in AA we should get honest with ourselves. Nothing in this world is perfect and I think we in AA tend to imply that everything is going to be absolutely wonderful if we just get sober. I've been around AA over ten years and have had many experiences with imperfection; some of you may know them as slips.