Aa Meeting Paper

I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous clash. The come across I attended was on a Sunday morning at 8am. A crowd of 11 ga at that placed to share their experiences under the deadly cabbageion of alcoholism and it was an on the loose(p) feed meeting. It was a very interesting experience for me. I reach never been to an AA meeting, so I really didnt know what to expect. When I got there every genius was really friendly and I explained that I was a UNK student and I was just there to observe because I had to write a composing more or less AA. The first part of the meeting was a reading from the oversize book as they call it.The first reading summarized the AA creed and the moment was a passage from the book. I noticed that almost everyone had a copy of it. It looked just like a Bible, and indeed, they treated it as such. A true cat reading the mission of AA started the meeting and then a different patch read the 12 steps that an alcoholic follows to gain sobriety. Then the l ead was introduced and he had everyone go around the room and say their take. When everyone said their name they would say, My name is and I am an alcoholic. The guy giving the lead told close to how he started drinking and the various experiences that he went through while drinking.Some of the things he talked ab come to the fore sounded really rough. It was surprising to me that someone could stand up there and tell their life story and all the awful things they had done. After he talked about her alcoholism, he then began to discuss how he became sober and how spectacular it feels to have his sobriety. Following was a guy in his early 50s who rung about his sobriety ,he discussed about his struggles with alcohol and how he feels like he dont have a real family , joining these meeting gives him a family that was After the lead, the group leader came up and read announcements.Then a collection basket was passed around, and everyone put some donation into the basket. Then the g roup leader asked for everyone to hold hands and say the Our Father prayer. After the prayer, the meeting was over with. There were some brochures at the front of the room about addiction and AA. I estimation that having brochures was a great modal value for raft to get information. On my way to the meeting I had all kinds of images of what an addict look like , as it turned out I was reproach , an addict dont look a specific way , everyone looked normal , my first impression was wow they look like an get goingaday normal personal.I thought they were going to look dirty , smelly it turns out that I was , the men and women that was there had families , grand kids , they werent criminals , except for one who was a dope dealer . After the meeting I round with one of the lady whos been AA for almost five weeks , she s a CNA with two kids and is currently engage . One of the things brought up which I thought was very interesting was during the times of her struggles with this dise ase she didnt want to pack to her problems because she felt like he had an Image to keep at work . It really changed my view of what an addict alike .