automatically; like someone at a cloakroom who is taking my coat of false identity and hanging it up so that I can just be myself. When I pronounce myself as alcoholic, I immediately get right sized to who I am, and not who I think I am. There is immense power in saying: “I am an alcoholic.” because only then do I become teachable. I also get a deeper sense of true self when I work through the 12 steps with my sponsor. Each of them is created to strip me of my ego, expose my defects of character, have them removed (but not deleted). Then filling that gap with some concept of a power greater than myself, experiencing true love and then giving that love to others. My perspective on humility changes more and more, but I think the best description I have read so far – is that being humble means that I am the person that God intended me to be. I love AA, I love myself and I love others and with that I will keep on coming back. Adrian