I've previously mentioned my key 2021 sponsee who was a HS senior when I was a freshman. The guy with the hottest sexiest girlfriends, the best booze and drugs, the coolest music, at the best parties, that 14 year old me hero worshipped. Kind of a Dazed and Confused scene. And now that he's in his early 50s I've taken him through the steps and he's got 10 months and he's become like a brother. I've described how I know I'm alcoholic because from the moment I got to high school I wanted to be exactly like those seniors who were doing it right, weekends in oblivion. And how when he got to AA he didn't recognize me or realize who I was until after he asked me to sponsor him.
Last night we had one of those magical, intimate book study meetings. We're on the stories in the back of the book, and my observation is that the women contributors do a smashing job with language. https://aa-edinburgh.org.uk/pdf/bigbook/pioneers_9.pdf. This sums it up:
Anyway, at the end of the meeting a friend who is 2 yrs older than me picked up her 30 year chip. I vaguely remember the chatter back in 1991 "oh did you hear so and so stopped drinking and went to AA?" She got sober a month and a week prior to my Dad, which means he's coming up on 29 years.
Time flies.
It's the holidays and I'm emotional AF. Very grateful to be coming up on 11 years.