Members of AA love you until you can love yourself. I have only been in the rooms for three months, and yet people I don’t know check in with me, call me by name, and give me assuring embraces even before the meeting starts. How do people who I never had a direct conversation remember me or even care about me?
Anyone who attends meetings has become my family. They genuinely provide an altruistic love to others until they can love themselves. Yes, I did word that correctly. They give this emotion, although they sometimes can’t appreciate themselves.
A journey to sobriety