Bad: Not suitable or fitting.
I mentioned a bad meeting that I attended last week. I went back last night after an electronic tongue lashing by someone wiser than me. There is a lot of wisdom in the idea that I can always learn something from every experience, and there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that I generally have the tolerance of a marauding Mongol warrior on horseback. So back I went and the meeting was even worse than last week. I probably should stop going to this particular meeting but it's just so damn close and it was such a nice night for a walk. Plus, I got to bitch about how bad the meeting was to SuperK all the way home and you know how much I love to bitch.
I think what happens some times is that similar people go to meetings together. One of the reasons that I like to frequent different clubhouses and areas of town is that I need to hear the experience, strength, and wisdom of all kinds of different people. When I say that I don't believe that I'm not better than anyone else and that no one else is better than me I'm mostly telling the truth. People working good programs lead to a good meeting.
This particular meeting has a lot of people who don't have a lot of sobriety. There's a tendency to glamorize the past and excuse the relapsing and justify the failures by saying: "But I go to a lot of meetings." Yes, meetings are crucial for me, too, but they don't get me all that far if I'm not WORKING THE STEPS! I went to a meeting every day for 18 months and couldn't stay sober because I WASN'T WORKING THE STEPS!
The message today, should I have failed to make my point, is please WORK THE STEPS!
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