One of the shares at the Welcome Group meeting was, “Normal is a setting on the dryer, not a way to measure life.”
We are promised sober living, not normal living. That distinction has avoided decades of discussion around the meaning of the word ‘normal.’ Normal is a community standard, sobriety is an individual standard. And this is key. It is part of our Third Tradition, the only requirement for membership is a subjective standard, and a big part of what keeps us together.