Throughout my drinking life and in early sobriety I acted as if I was the script writer of my life. If one of the characters told me the truth of my condition or behavior, I would simply write them out of the script. No one could challenge the author.
“Have you not realized how fragile and brutal the ego is? It will always choose what it perceives as in its best interest for the cheapest price. […] But it all comes from the same place of either using people to get what we want or trying to eliminate people who get in our way.” — Donna Goddard
All of A.A.’s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires… they all deflate our egos.
— Page 55 Twelve & Twelve
