Lest We Become Complacent... In Other Words Don't Get To Comfortable In Your Sobriety

Recovery
#1

It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe.
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85

When I am in pain it is easy to stay close to the friends I have found in the program. Relief from that pain is provided in the solutions contained in A.A.’s Twelve Steps. But when I am feeling good and things are going well, I can become complacent. To put it simply, I become lazy and turn into the problem instead of the solution. I need to get into action, to take stock: where am I and where am I going? A daily inventory will tell me what I must change to regain spiritual balance. Admitting what I find within myself, to God and to another human being, keeps me honest and humble.

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#2

Being complacent led to me falling off the wagon for almost 3 years after 2.5 years of sobriety. Thinking that I could handle 1 beer on a night out. How quickly 1 beer turned to 4, turned to 8, turned into a bottle of Wild Turkey, turned into benders with blackouts, and "what did I dos?" Complacency, in any aspect is dangerous for the human. It leads to becoming stale and stagnant with no sign of growth, it's leads to lack of accountability, it leads to work place accidents, car accidents, death in the worse case scenario. I teach my kids about not being complacent, about challenging themselves, to do the hard things. Only by doing the things people deemed to hard, do we grow by leaps and bounds.

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