Time is a big issue for everyone, but perhaps especially for recovering individuals. In early recovery in A.A. people count the days, and your first sober day begins a repeated accounting of how much “time” in recovery you have. Time often weighs heavily on the hands of the newcomer. Newly sober people are often jealous of the “time” old timers have and often don’t really believe that old timers could have been “like themselves” in the past, or truly understand the panic...
