I'M NOT DIFFERENT – Daily reflections

Daily reflections - February 19

In the beginning, it was four whole years before A. A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like  the  "high  bottoms,"  the  women  said  they  were different; . . . The Skid-Rower said he was different . . . so did the artists and the professional people, the rich, the poor, the religious, the agnostic, the Indians and the Eskimos, the veterans, and the prisoners . . . nowadays all of these, and legions more, soberly talk about how very much alike all of us alcoholics are when we admit that the chips are finally down.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 24

I cannot  consider  myself "different" in A.  A.; if I do  I isolate  myself  from  others  and  from  contact  with  my Higher Power. If I feel isolated in A.A., it is not something for  which  others  are  responsible.  It  is  something  I've created by feeling I'm "different" in some way. Today I practice being just another alcoholic in the worldwide Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.