[dwmoeller]

N is for The "Nth" Year

The Nth year is this year. The message is that the dangerous year of sobriety is the present. Years past are either successful or otherwise, and years to come aren't here yet. There is a rather somber aspect to this quote, or at least it seemed so to me when I first heard it. It is sobering to realize that my recovery is an ongoing process that can be interrupted anytime I pick up a drink, no matter how many years I may have with the AA program. I don't worry about this a lot, but I do spend some time on each of my AA birthdays remembering that the key word for me is recovering not recovered.