"If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?"
-- Erma Bombeck
When I saw this, I thought it read, "What am I doing with the pits?"
Both are worth thought and require action on my part. The 12 Steps are applicable to both.
Am I practicing the principles in all my affairs? Do I work the Steps into my daily life? Do I just think program in meetings and leave my program at the door when I go home, to work, or out into the community?
Do I think, oh woe is me? I am an alcoholic. I am so hard done by, forgetting that I should be grateful that I have found this new way of living. If I wasn't an alcoholic, I wouldn't have known that there was a chance at recovery.
Do I sometimes need to eat my words? Do I give others a second thought? Am I so caught up in self that I don't have time for others?