ACCEPTING OUR HUMANNESS:
We finally saw that the inventory should be ours, not the other man’s. So we admitted our wrongs honestly and became willing to set these matters straight.
– As Bill Sees it, page 222 –
Why is it that the alcoholic is so unwilling to accept responsibility? I used to drink because of the things that other people did to me. Once I came to A.A. I was told to look at where I had been wrong. What did I have to do with all these different matters? When I simply accepted that I had a part in them, I was able to put it on paper and see it for what it was — humanness. I am not expected to be perfect! I have made errors before and I will make them again. To be honest about them allows me to accept them — and myself — and those with whom I had the differences; from there, recovery is just a short distance ahead.