"To watch people recover, to see them helping others, to watch lonliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives." ----Alcoholics Anonymous pg. 89

I love that paragraph and it popped into my head after I read your post. Isn't it wonderful to see others' progress??? Its often so much easier to see it in others than in ourselves. Yesterday I saw a one year medallion for a friend of mine who struggled for years.....and never made 11 months. After his last relapse, a friend of ours found him in a hotel room drunk with a loaded gun. And yesterday he finally got a year.....WOW. Thank you for sharing about the ones you saw!!!!

Its a joy to watch you grow Split.....keep up the good work!