DRUNK DREAMS

I'M ONE of the really fortunate people in AA. I came to the program desperate. I guess I balked a little at the first meeting I attended, but within 24 hours I realized there was nothing of my old life that I wanted to hold onto, and so I let go absolutely and did the 90 meetings in 90 days, got a sponsor right away, plunged into the Steps, and saw my life begin to get better pretty quickly. None of this is to my personal credit, though. As an old sponsor of mine used to put it, I was beaten down to the point that I became "sweetly reasonable"--I did what I had to do based on fear of ever going back to where I used to be. As a result I haven't had to take a drink in little over 11 years.