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One of the Spiritual Principles we receive from working and Living the Steps and Traditions is Humility. Humility comes from the word human, to be human is to err.

If we didn't make mistakes, we wouldn't be human. In Narcotics Anonymous we try to achieve adequacy, not perfection. The disease of addiction had us trapped in the idea that we had to be perfect.

Many of us wouldn't try anything new because we thought we would fail. Failure became the stumbling block that kept us from actually learning to take healthy risks. Afraid of the unknown and dominated by fear, we retreated to our distorted security in familiar pain.

In Narcotics Anonymous by working Steps we learn it's OK not to try to be perfect. Steps Five through Seven teach us that it's OK to be ourselves; it's OK to be human. Steps One, Two and Three shows us that we're not God, and we can stop trying to be God, that job is already taken.

We let go and let Him. The result is that we become ourselves; we become human, perfectly imperfect. Perfection is a Divine quality of our Higher Power, we are never going to be perfect. Through Living the Steps, we reach a point in our Recovery that our true value is just being ourselves, with all our flaws.

It's OK to be human and learn from our imperfections.

In This Moment: We will stop trying to reach perfection. We will strive for Adequacy and Self-Acceptance. In turn, we learn to Accept others right where they're at.