HASTE
Make haste slowly.
~ Augustus ~
It is natural for a newcomer to be impatient and want to know everything possible about recovery quickly. So many efforts have been made in the past toward staying abstinent, with no results, that the addict is sick and tired of the discouragement that followed every failure. As soon as they were aware that success could at long last be theirs, beginners sometimes thought they must waste no time in being experts on the subject of addiction and recovery.
The old saying “haste makes waste” is still good advice. Many a quick learner discovers that when they rush into “educating the whole world” after only a short time in recovery, they often have been looking only at surface truths. Fortunately, such “eager beavers” quickly learn to dig deeper into the process of admitting and accepting before tackling the job of being a teacher, even to themselves.
When I was new to the Program, I needed to remember that I couldn’t learn everything overnight. I was told to carry the message, but first I had to find out what it was.
©1990 by Anonymous, Published by Hazelden
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