This helps to remind me that I must remain first, last, and always a newcomer in my own mind, and to work the program in that way. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, 2nd edition, page 210

Oldtimer. I’ve earned the name
though only a fraction of what some have.
It seems like by now I should know the program,
have it all figured out. Other people think I do…
I guess I have them fooled.
But really, I have wisdom, experience, I can share.
It’s just that I need to know I haven’t arrived,
that I am one bite away from the old abyss.
I need to know, to feel, to really internalize
that as far as I’m concerned, I’m a newbie,
ready to hear what I need to hear to keep me here.