Good Reasons

“Crossing the River of Denial” (Page 328, Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition) is my favorite Big Book story – I really relate. Looking back, I can now see how much I denied and rationalized my destructive behavior, drunk and sober. I went to great lengths to make sure that I carried plenty of “good reasons” in my hip pocket, just in case I might need one on the spur of the moment to justify my otherwise unacceptable actions. I was also good at rebooting my memory to minimize any lasting effect of those things that weren’t so easily rationalized.