Aa Meeting Paper

I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The meeting I attended was on a Sunday morning at 8am. A group of 11 gathered to share their experiences under the deadly addiction of alcoholism and it was an disseminate forego meeting. It was a very interesting experience for me. I have never been to an AA meeting, so I really didnt know what to expect. When I got there every mavin was really friendly and I explained that I was a UNK assimilator and I was yet there to observe because I had to write a paper near AA. The firstborn part of the meeting was a breeding from the big book as they call it.The first reading summarized the AA creed and the second was a passage from the book. I noticed that almost everyone had a copy of it. It timbreed just the like a Bible, and indeed, they treated it as such. A guy reading the mission of AA started the meeting and whence a different man read the 12 steps that an alcoholic follows to gain sobriety. Then the lead was introduced and he had everyone go around the means and say their name. When everyone said their name they would say, My name is and I am an alcoholic. The guy giving the lead told ab divulge how he started drinking and the various experiences that he went through bit drinking.Some of the things he talked about sounded really rough. It was surprising to me that someone could stand up there and tell their life story 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 great it feels to have his sobriety. Following was a guy in his early 50s who spoke 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 group leader asked for everyone to hold ma npower 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 thought that having brochures was a great way for people 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 wrong , an addict dont look a specific way , everyone looked linguistic rule , my first impression was wow they look like an everyday 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 spoke 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 disease she didnt want to admit 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 .