Our program has a popular slogan : “ I came for my vanity, instead, I find my sanity ”. Thar was my experience of nearly two decades, until May 2019. Suddenly, the slogan became ,“ I came for my vanity,instead, I find myself a stalker”.
I started to write my story describing the relationship between my stalker and I. Since, he continually pulled the fellowship into this dynamic , there was a triangulation that could not be overlooked. A triangulation that is reminiscence of the affairs in Winkie Country in the Wizard Of Oz. I decided to name my collection of writings , Winkie Country In Recovery.
Winkie Country In Recovery is adaptation of part of the Wizard Of Oz. It is the story between Dorothy Gale, wicked witch of the west. The flying Monkeys acted as proxy for Wicked Witches Of The West. My story with my stalker is similar to that. In this case the flying monkeys would be my fellowship. These series of writing hopefully put a shed on how my friends appeared as flying monkeys to me.
I have respected everyone 's confidentiality. my intention is not to hurt anyone, but to bring awareness about the predators in the rooms. Sadly, the 12 steps meetings are not monitored by any outside agency. It is up to ourselves to Audit ourselves. As cases like mine suggests, We haven't done a good job protecting our community.
Some people are so mesmerized with the theatrics that the predators perform that are blinded from the truth.
Sadly, our community echos a meaningless interpretation of the 12 step program to dodge the responsibility of keeping the meetings safe.
People could get wiped out from the surface of the earth and no one would even know.
It is being dismissed as Another person lost his life to the disease.
Dorothy Gale
Winkie Country, Land of Oz