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I attended an AA meeting and learned a lot. At first I thought it would be kind of pointless and was not happy that I would have to go. However after attending I found it to be very helpful and was happy I went and plan to keep going.
I learned that many of the people who were there never realized they were alcoholics until it was too late. They all just started as people like me who just drank as a social thing; it was just something to do with some friends. Eventually it became a regular thing and for different reasons. It was usually just to escape from problems they were having in life. There was one person whose husband died and she would go to the bar every night to try to forget what was going on. She said it would help her feel better for a while but as soon as she went home she realized that it still didn’t help. She said every time she got home she would just want to go back to the bar but would usually just start drinking at home. She told me that she eventually realized that it didn’t really help and that matter how much she drank she would just want more. She said that drinking doesn’t solve any problems and usually just makes more.
Many of the people who were there had been sober for over ten years; one of the people had been sober for 21 years. At first I thought that was a really long time to be sober. Then I started wondering why they were still coming if they had been sober for such a long time. The guy who had been sober for 21 years said that even though it’s been a long time the temptation is still always there. He said that when he has a rough day that’s the worst for him because it makes him want to drink alcohol that much more. He told me that when he started drinking he was 15 and he never really thought that alcoholism was a real problem. He thought it was just in peoples heads and that you could not really get a dependency on alcohol but by the time he realized it he was already an alcoholic.
The meeting I went...