On occasion, I like to tell this story to newcomers who want to treat me as if my 40 years of sobriety and gray hair give me some great wisdom: I bought an old house and moved in without doing any repairs. The third step in the stairs was broken and the first three times up and down I tripped and fell. From then on, I just stepped over the broken step whenever I went up or down. When friends would visit, I would tell them to be careful of that third step. That is sharing my experience. Wisdom would have been fixing the step the first time I tripped on it!!