Keep coming back!
“Meetings keep us in touch with where we’ve been, but more importantly with where
we could go in our recovery.”
Basic Text, p.54
In many ways, addicts are different. When we came to Narcotics Anonymous we
found others like ourselves, people who understood us and whom we could
understand. No longer did we feel like aliens, strangers wherever we went. We were
at home in NA meetings, among friends.
We don’t stop being addicts after we’ve been clean awhile. We still need to identify
with other addicts. We continue coming to NA meetings to keep in touch with who
we are, where we’ve come from, and where we’re going. Every meeting reminds us
that we can never use drugs successfully. Every meeting reminds us that we’ll never
be cured, but that by practicing the principles of the program we can recover. And
every meeting offers us the experience and example of other addicts in ongoing
recovery.
At meetings, we see how different people work their program, and the results are
apparent in their lives. If we want the lives we see others living, we can find out
what they’ve done to get where they are. Narcotics Anonymous meetings offer us
identification with where we’ve been and where we can go-identification we can’t do
without and can’t get anywhere else. That keeps us coming back.
Just for today: I will attend an NA meeting to remind myself of who I am, where I’ve
come from, and where I can go in my recovery.