The Last Addiction
From The Last Addiction by Sharon A. Hersh
Humility frees us from embarrassment about ourselves or our loved ones and
keeps us open to the healing path, in whatever form it might take. I learned my
own need for humility in my failures in recovery. I hid my relapse from others
for the reason often quoted in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings: "You don't want to
relapse, because then you have to go to the back of the line." Right, I didn't
want to go to the back of the line, and I certainly didn't want anyone to tell
me that I had to go there. I had stepped off the path, not because of my
relapse, but because of my pride. I was unwilling to believe that my relapse
needed to happen because I still had a lot to learn. Humility allows us to hear
that every relapse or struggle is an opportunity to learn something, and then
humility leads us to what we need to learn, even from the back of the
line.
Humility is a deep knowing in my soul that I can't do it. It is the final
answer to the last addiction.
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