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Originally Posted by Anubis  What kind of positive changes have you experienced since you quit? |
I experienced a substantial lack of dying.
OK, seriously. Recovery, for me, is not about adding up a list of pros and cons about drinking or not drinking and deciding which one is better.
There are a ton of tangible changes. Physical (I stopped puking blood, blood pressure, cholesterol, liver factors normalized), the mental ones you mentioned, legal (never been arrested sober), financial. The list of tangibles is endless.
But there is change that goes way beyond the tangible. It's that 'thing' that happens with real recovery. It's that peacefullness and comfort, god-conciousness, serenity thing. It's the thing you didn't know you were missing until you have it. It's the thing that can't be experienced until you experience it. Words like 'reborn' start to make sense.