On March 28, 2016 I attended my first AA Meeting. Not really knowing what to expect, I found that everyone was nice and very welcoming. There were people from all walks of life, from adolescence to geriatrics. Although they were all very different, they all shared a commonality, to maintain sobriety. There were no membership fees or strict guidelines to join, no judgement being placed, there was only one simple rule, to have a desire to stop drinking. The meeting began with a reading from the “Big Book” as they called it. The speaker told of her hardships living in an alcoholic house hold and her own personal struggles with alcohol. A few other people in the group also shared their hardships and struggles with alcohol. They all shared a close
