Day Twelve

Some years ago, I saw a TED talk by an Irish guy whose family was devastated by heroin addiction. He set out to try to understand why it had happened. He did a lot of research and at the end of the talk he summed it all up this way “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection.” Those of us lucky enough to be alcoholic and part of the fellowship of AA have found a connection and have been saved by it. This thing you’re doing is another form of connection. Connection involves risk, it takes courage to love, it involves leaving your comfort zone. A comfort zone is a beautiful place but, nothing grows there.
Allen Ravenstine