YOU CAN'T SAVE EVERYONE

WHEN WE START FEELING BETTER, WE WANT TO START SAVING EVERYONE. IT'S NOT UP TO YOU TO SAVE THE WORLD. RIGHT NOW, IT'S ONLY UP TO YOU TO SAVE YOURSELF. WHEN WE GET FURTHER ALONG IN OUR RECOVERY WE WILL HAVE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP OTHER ADDICTS, BUT FOR NOW, YOU MUST BE CAREFULL NOT TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THE LIVES OF OTHER ADDICTS WHO ARE ALSO NEW TO RECOVERY. THE SAD THING IS, MOST OF THE PEOPLE WE MEET WHEN WE BEGIN OUR RECOVERY, WILL NOT BE CLEAN A YEAR FROM NOW, A MONTH FROM NOW, OR INSOME CASES, EVEN A DAY FROM NOW.
BY WORKING THE STEPS AND CHANGING OUR OLD DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS, WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND JUST HOW POWERFUL OUR DISEASE IS. IF ANOTHER ADDICT CHOOSES TO USE AGAIN, WE CAN NOT LET THAT WEAKEN OUR FAITH. WE HAVE STREGNTH IN NUMBERS AND WE NEVER TRY TO SAVE A SINKING ADDICT BY OURSELVES, WE GO IN GROUPS.
LET'S NOT DWELL ON HOW MANY ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT, BUT FOCUS ON HOW MANY MILLIONS OF US HAVE, IF ONLY JUST FOR TODAY. THERE ARE MIRACLES SURROUNDING US WHEN WE WALK INTO A MEETING OF 100 PEOPLE WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD LONG AGO. I BELIEVE WE WERE SPARED SO WE COULD BE THE ONES TO CARRY THE MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO ARE SICK AND SUFFERING, THAT THERE IS A BETTER WAY, THERE IS A BETTER LIFE, THAT THERE ARE MANY OF US WHO ARE HERE TO HELP YOU. WE DO RECOVER!

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