Shallow and Fairly Obvious Advice

I'm still interacting with this new guy, the one who asked me to be his sponsor.  Always suspicious of new guys so my technique is to immediately assign a writing task which very people do and he proved no exception.  I say this in a bemused fashion, not meaning to be critical.  I did not understand the concept of "work" when I was getting sober; as in, "work The Steps."  I wanted results that were clearly going to require work without actually doing any work.  As you may recall I consider myself a taker and not a giver.  Anyway, I am in contact with this guy in a way that he seems to feel is helpful and I seem to feel is low-intensity bullshit but . . . hey . . . help is what someone wants and not what I want to give.

As I have been passing along my shallow and fairly obvious wisdom I continue to be struck by the realization that sometimes we just have to make a decision even if that fucking intuitive thought doesn't present itself.  Sometimes I have to just walk into the dark and trust that everything is going to be okay.