A guy barged into the AA meeting last night — drunk, 30 minutes after it had started. He said, “This is what an alcoholic looks like! I want you all to see it!”

Everyone looked up at him without saying anything. It takes a lot to truly disrupt a bunch of sober drunks who work the first step which is all about letting go of control. We are all very familiar with disruption

A woman, someone with quite a few sober days under her belt, looked up at the guy and said quietly, “We know,” with a smile. “We all know.”

I thought to myself There I am! He’s a mirror into our pasts and our present. We all see ourselves.