My place in the world
February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members

My place in the world

No longer in the center of the universe, a longtime member in Tasmania is content to deal with things as they come along

When I got to AA, I thought that an alcoholic’s problem was alcohol and AA was just about stopping drinking. What I was hearing in meetings in Sydney in 1974 seemed to confirm that, with most speakers at meetings just talking about the horrors of drinking and the wonders of sobriety. There was hardly any talk about recovery. 

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