Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Read the Big Book, inside those rooms, we are trying to stay away from a drink, There are helpful steps, the 4th step is about taking our own inventory, not anyone elses. Why? Because sobriety is a way to be happy and fulfilled without a drink. Raging at others of why or who they are, and resenting someone likeing that person, even if you do not, does not sound like peace of mind to me. There are a million reasons an alcoholic will find to drink, Resentment is the reason for 90% of them. It's not a social club, except that everyone when the sit down, is there because they could not stop messing up their lives with alcohol, There will be people you do not like for reasons that do not bother others. But maybe that person has a way of keeping sober that you might need someday, One Day at A Time
If you haven't met anyone you don't like at a meeting then you aren't going to enough they say. I wouldn't necessarily say it's resentment, I just can't be cordial with some of these folks. My old boss had his kid released from prison and came to work with me, something was off about him so I looked into his charges, he was convicted of raping his sisters for years... 11 and 12 and he was 20 when he got got locked up for 5 years. I couldn't stay working there. I'm not able to overlook certain stuff, it is a character defect and I've asked God to remove it.