The AA

The AA have a maxim "Anything you place before your sobriety, you're going to lose." For some reason that shook me, largely because I'm not a drunk, but it struck me how few of the people I see around me are sober. I would have used 'clarity' instead of 'sobriety,' but when you stop and think how much people throw away because they're in some fuzzy state... Whatever you throw your clarity away for - ends up costing you both itself and the clarity you lost trying to get it.