Today I make a commitment to be honest with myself.  By facing reality, I become someone I can depend upon.

This reminder allowed me to think back to when I couldn't be honest with myself or anyone else.  I disliked myself so much, that I felt I had to hide who I was.  I was also in so much denial about the abuse from my childhood and the alcoholics in my life, that I was scared to know the truth, let alone say it to another human being.  Of course now all that's changed.  14 years in alanon have convinced me that it's OK to be me.  And if someone doesn't like me, that's OK too.  I like me, and that's what counts.  :)