You don’t need to be told not to trust yourself, because you’ve always been told not to trust yourself. You don’t need to be told how to apologize, because you’ve already been apologizing for everything you are and everything you do to everyone forever. You aren’t coming in too big and too proud, you’re coming in cratered, and you don’t need to be broken the fuck down because you’re already broken the fuck down. In other words, the Twelve Steps aren’t some radical new way of being; they are your daily lot.
