Assumptions? Challenged.

Assumption:  The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

When I came into The Fellowship my positions were fixed in place.  With Super Glue.  What I believed, how I viewed the world, was unmovable, immutable.  My opinions were fact.  This is why a lot of us struggle at the start: we don't believe anything that contradicts our positions is valid.

More insanity.  Disregarding something - with tons of proof and tons of living examples - without batting an eye.

LSD Boy is testing the validity of my open-mindedness.  He took a coin today celebrating a year of sobriety.  He did not ask me - his sponsor - to give him this coin, and I'm glad about this because I would have politely refused, given my stance that casual drug users are not, in fact, sober.

Despite the fact he has presented a ton of evidence that - technically speaking, officially speaking - he IS sober.  On top of that he stresses that he has made the decision to refrain from casual drug use.  I suspect that he still doesn't think drugs are a problem but what does that mean to me?  How is that important to me?  I guess it would be like asking a newcomer if he or she could stay sober forever.  I personally didn't quit drinking for anything more than a day at a time, suggesting that I might have been leaving the door open to some continued drinking down the road.

Funny how there are a ton of blurry edges around almost everything.  When I profess to support the idea of Live and Let Live do I really mean it, or is my interpretation more along the lines of Live and Do It My Way or You're Doing It Wrong?  And then don't I have a personal obligation to stick to my own set of ethics, to be true to what feels right in my own heart?

I congratulated him warmly on his milestone and we chatted pleasantly for a while after the meeting.  I didn't harangue him about . . . well, about anything, and he's not doing a lot of stuff right in my book.

Tricky stuff.