God, the Verb

To get to Step Two, you have to get past Step One. That was what I was told when I first came into the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. It made sense to me. The Steps are in order; they build upon one another. It was logical. My drinking, my attempts to control it, and all of the damage done in the process made it clear enough to me that I had more than a little drinking problem. So taking Step One was easy.