“(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.” (Page 60, Big Book)
I heard a radio report about a ship crashing into a bridge.
They said, “The ship lost power, and therefore control.”
That’s Step One. Because I have no power (and something else does), I am not managing my life (and something else is).
Thinking one has got one part of the step, but not the other, I’ve not understood anything.
The consequence of lacking power is to be at the mercy of the existing momentum and the surrounding tide, and the course of my vessel is no longer under my control.