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Essay On Alcoholics Anonymous

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For most college students, a normal Friday night is spent with friends drinking at a bar or hanging out a house party with drinks all around. However, for the wide array of aged members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) that was not the case. For this class assignment, I gave up a night of going out to attend a meeting and understand how alcohol affected others lives. I see alcohol as a sense of enjoyment after a long week of work and school; I can kick back and relax by surrounding myself with friends. While others, recovering alcoholics, see alcohol as a poison and toxic substance that caused pain and grief in their life.
Walking into a damp church gymnasium, with a large circle of chairs, my friend and I quietly took our seats. We watched as

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