Distilled Spirits

When sharing my experience, strength, and hope, I try to avoid using words like "success" and "failure." I might come off as indicating that those who return to drinking are failures while those who remain sober are successes. When I look across a table in an AA meeting and see a person full of alcohol hanging onto the last vestiges of any self-esteem he or she may have, I do not see failure, I see a person who has the same illness I have. So little is known about the treatment of my disease that I think it wise not to classify the condition of another's health.