Me, of Course

"Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate."

Big Book

Solipsism:  The philosophical belief that self is all that can be known, the idea that one's mind is all that is certain to exist, and therefore knowledge beyond one's own consciousness is impossible.

Man-a-live, can I get behind that philosophy.  If it's not about me then I don't really care.  Go talk to someone else, please.   A friend in the Program paints rocks for fun and she handed me one the other morning with the comment that it really reminded her of me.  It read: "Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me," in three vertical rows in three different colors.  I'm sure she would have added another row of Me's if she had had access to a bigger rock.

Here's a passage from one of the stories in The Big Book: "I used to be set in my way about what I considered the old-time A.A.  I have to tell myself that other things are progressing and A.A. must too.  We old-timers get scattered and separated and then witness the construction of services to get in more people and to make this thing function, we think that A.A. has changed, but the root of it hasn't.  We are older in A.A. and we're older in years.  It's only natural that we don't have the capacity to change,but we ought not to criticize those who have."

Good words to live by as I get more cantankerous in my twilight years.