Are these extravagant consequences?

If I am careless about this phase of my development, I will be lost before I am halfway through.  I will renew my obsession with alcohol and sacrifice all true happiness.  I will forget the word serenity and have no peace.  No matter how far down the scale I have already gone I will fall even lower.  I will resent the past and then repeat it, over and over again.  That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will return, and more.  I will focus on selfish things and hide from my fellows.  Sanity will slip away.  My whole attitude and outlook upon life will change for the worse.  Fear of people and of economic insecurity will consume me.  I will again be baffled by even the most normal of situations.  I will suddenly believe that God will do nothing for me.

Are these extravagant consequences?  I think not!  They have been fulfilled within me.  Always quickly, always completely.  They will always materialize when I cease to work this program of recovery.