The thing that struck me about my first AA meeting was how freaking happy everyone was. I think I was still technically drunk when I went or just in the very early stages of withdrawl, and I was kind of expecting a whole bunch of people who were miserable like me. By chance the first meeting I went to was mosty older people but they were all having a good time and laughing, and they were all really friendly. I really didn't understand it. My second meeting, when I was in withdrawl so I was really shaky and feeling like crap had a much broader age range, but again evreyone was laughing and joking and happy. It was weird.

It took me a long time to get sobriety and AA but now I really look forward to going to meetings and seeing everybody. And now I'm one of those people who are laughing and joking.

the only thing that still gets me is the hugging urge - there seems to be a lot of people in AA here who like hugging.. I'm not a huggy type person, but boy did I have to get over that fast.

--splitimage