2 Temmuz

"Identify don't compare," we've all heard this at one time or another at meetings in Narcotics Anonymous. Comparing our using stories and the drugs we used separates us from each other. Our Literature tells us that we're not interested in what or how much you used, who your connections were, or how much or how little you have. Narcotics Anonymous is only interested in what you want to do about your problem and how we can Help.

This Helps to get to root of the problem, "addiction. " This also Helps us find a common Solution, which is Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous. Our identification as addicts is on a deeper level, than just the use of drugs. Feelings and emotions are how we Empathize with each other.

Our healing takes place at this deep level and not the symptom, which was our drug use. We Share our stories with this in mind. We Carry a Message of Hope and the Promise of Freedom.

The identification takes place when we Share about the hopeless and helpless state we found ourselves as a result of addiction. We Share how we arrived to Narcotics Anonymous. We Share about the Fellowship we found with people just like us.

We Empathized with each other because just like them, we visited the same horrors of addiction. Today our Common Welfare comes first.

We are able to Help one another because we are the same.

In This Moment: We will focus on the Solution not the Problem. Our Identification as addicts provides a Common Solution.