“The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.” (Page 60, Big Book)
If I do what the wanting screen in my mind says, I’ll drink. Sometimes it wants to stay sober; someone it doesn’t; sometimes it wants to live; sometimes it doesn’t.
Commitment to the programme is required, which means the willingness to live by a system regardless of what I think or feel at any given moment, regardless of what is displayed on the screen.