In 1825 a missionary
said: I have not seen one of them drunk, by 1843 the agent reports: The Osage
have drank more whiskey in the past year than they have since they were a
people.
Osage
Most
of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to
think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is
not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless
vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow,
someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every
abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue
it into the gates of insanity or death.
Big
Book pg. 30
Who
cares to admit defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct
cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to
admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our mind into such an obsession for
destructive drinking that only an act of
No
other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious
creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and will to resist its demands.
Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is
complete.
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 21
Grandfather
free us from the bondage of alcohol.