Anonymity

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of AA.  It is in the title.  So what?  Well, anonymity is the spiritual foundation of ageing too.  Get used to it or prepare for it.  As you get older, you become more anonymous, less the center of people’s lives.  If you have a job, you are less wanted at it. Being squeezed out maybe?  You are less able physically to do some things, so you lose center stage in “getting things done.”  Family and friends, they move away and get on with their lives.  Old friends die and it is harder to make new ones.  Your world gets smaller.  But there is one who never forgets, for whom you are always a favorite, and that one is God, however you understand that.  Maybe that is why some people get “spiritual” when they get older.  They have more time for it, and more of a need.  If some people criticize you for this, they might be the same people that pretty much ignore your existence now.  Some people won’t even have the time or interest to spend an hour at your funeral.  But God will be there.