One Shoe Walking

There are people who come into AA and receive a "Big Book."  This is the AA catechism.  They take it home and read it, by themselves.  They now have information.  They go back out and drink.  It happens over and over.  Why?  Because they did not have a mentor who could share experience based upon the catechism of the literature.  We all need sponsors if we are going to "get it," that is benefit from wisdom that is handed down to us such that we will change our lives.  A true teacher is a sponsor.  To read wisdom literature alone is like walking in one shoe.  Soon we will stop walking.  We are still too sick or dull or uninitiated to put on a second shoe.  At least I have found it to be so.