Why the Point of Sobriety Is to Be Undisturbed – Sandy B.
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A "stupid plan" to fly to San Diego by flapping one's own arms—that is the ego's approach to living. Sandy B. describes the alcoholic's existence as a distorted map where the self is the center of the solar system, leaving the wreckage of a life lived in the gutter. He recalls the Marine Corps pride that blinded him and the slow, agonizing slide of lowering his moral values just to avoid the pain of falling short. To stop the noise, he tried to perform surgery on his own soul, trading it for a guilt-free sin.
The shift happens when the white flag goes up. Sandy B. argues that the goal isn't just sobriety, but becoming "smaller than a mosquito" so he can fly through the screen door of life undisturbed. By swapping a self-centered radar for a Higher Power, the channel is cleared of the debris of character defects. He views the steps not as theory, but as a workout where the pain of ego-puncturing eventually becomes the effort of growth.
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