From the Al-Anon Forum magazine
As I try to live the Al-Anon program each day , I find myself with the right to and responsibility for a new set of values and attitudes , I still have the right to become upset but I find that I also have the responsibility to turn away from anger.
I have the right to be supportive of others but the responsibility for not taking over their lives and problems.
I have the right to discuss and the responsibility not to lecture . I have the right to look back but the responsibility to look forward.
I have the right to learn a better way to live and the responsibility to share it with others. I have the right to expect happiness but the responsibility to create it.
I have the right to be understood and the responsibility to be understanding. I have the right to dignity with out sophistication and serenity with out superiority.
I have the right to live and the responsibility to let live, I have the right to take it easy and responsibility to make it easy to take.
I have the right to live one day at a time, and the responsibility to make the most of each day .
Finally I have the right to let go , and the responsibility to let God.