Instincts on Rampage

Rampage:  To move about wildly or violently.

I think that "Instincts On Rampage" would be a great name for a movie.

I attend literature meetings regularly as part of my recovery regimen.  Here's a few quotes that have struck my funny bone recently:

"Instincts on rampage balk at investigation."  I enjoy the concept that I need to learn how to live with my instincts.  I can't get rid of 'em and I can't let 'em run the show, but there has to be some balance in there.

The chapter we read was discussing the 4th Step.  It suggests that we do indeed have plenty of defects, our vigorous denials notwithstanding.

"We shall claim that our serious character defects, if we think we have any at all, have been caused chiefly by excessive drinking."  Yeah, this is always a popular excuse for the drunk - if I could just slow down my drinking then I'd be a fine chap, and because I'm such a fine chap then there's no need to do any of these bothersome inventories.

"Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people - people who really need a moral inventory."  Nothing better than blaming someone else for my bad behavior.  

"We thought 'conditions' drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand . . . "  It's everybody!  It's everything!  It isn't me!

Oh, brother.