As former GSR of my AA homegroup I am still on the mailing list. This means that I have received the applications for the 2010 International Convention being held in San Antonio, Texas next July. I am going, and have only to mail my registration and book my room. I’ll do that today.
I brought the applications to the meeting last night and made the announcement, held up the flyers, etc…Then I saw that the registration applications went into the chairperson’s notebook, which means they will never be seen again. This makes me sick, and opens my eyes again to the apathy that surrounds me in this program. This group is full of people with long-term sobriety who do nothing outside of coming to one meeting a week (maybe two) and leaving it at that. How sad. They have lost the gift of desperation and in doing so dampen the exciting fire of sobriety that I felt when I came into the rooms, and still feel at certain meetings. They no little or nothing of the 12 Traditions (which are not suggestions, like the Steps), and to top it off, I found out last week at a business meeting that the current treasurer (15 years sober) had no idea what a prudent reserve was. Once again, puking time is upon me.
In any case, their sobriety is not my own, and they can do what they want, but they give the impression that it is OK to just go to meetings and so forth. They take it all for granted. Blah, blah, blah…listen to me go.
Good news is all around me…Mom is doing much better (reading, with it, etc…) and the world still spins on its wobbly axis despite my disappointment with a bunch of whinging old ladies. I am going to finish my thesis and photo class by the end of next week and move along in life. This, I declare, is my goal today.
Johnnyboy
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You know what? Even though I am not an alcoholic, I know what you’re talking about. I’m in a program for something else and the same stuff happens. People who have been around for a long time forget what it was like at first, or don’t come every week, or even the once per month they are supposed to. They care more about their own success than the success of others or the group.
I try not to fall into this – it can be so easy. I answer questions that other people have in a friendly manner, rather than being snarky. I take text messages from people. I even offered to go to someone else’s meeting with her because the person who originally suggested it to her went once and then never went back with her! Grr. I just try to be supportive, that’s all. It’s not easy.
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