We Will Not Regret The Past

Many of us have lived lives full of shame and remorse for our behavior.  Prior to getting sober, I made choices, and many of them were poor choices, at best; some of my behavior was even criminal.  I do not ever want to repeat those choices or behaviors, and before I became a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, I lived with the shame and remorse of knowing how terrible a person I really was.  I lived in fear that, no matter how nice I pretended to be, or tried to be, someone would find out the secret of who I really was and would no longer like me or be my friend.  Worse, they would spill the beans and tell everyone!