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We love it, so we cannot refuse it, it makes us wild; we do not
know what we are doing; we abuse one another; we throw one another into
the fire. Okanicon
Men and women
drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The
sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they
cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their
alcoholic life seems the only normal one. "The Doctor's Opinion"
Big Book pg. xxviii Reprinted with
permission A.A.W.S. But there was
always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound
reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the
first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check. The insane
idea won out. Next day we would ask ourselves, in all earnestness and
sincerity, how it could have happened. Big Book
pg. 36 Reprinted with
permission A.A.W.S. However
intelligent we may have been in other respects, where alcohol has been
involved, we have been strangely insane. It's strong language--but isn't
it true? Big Book
pg. 38 Reprinted with
permission A.A.W.S. Creator let us
live free of the insanity of alcoholism. |