To make a choice and not a reaction.
Great response, for me the key phrase in this is 'to make a choice and not a reaction' when my life, in my drinking day, was always the other way around. The only choice I made was where was the most convenient place o buy my daily dose of my 'drug of choice' i.e.alcohol .
Which was the only choice in a then, life driven by circumstance and not choice. As my alcoholism progressed, two collided... with increasingly disastrous results!
No surprise there, other than it increased my motivation to understand why a couldn't stop drinking???
The fortunate result was that I was placed, in a position, which in one sense exists today where I got rid off both to the extent that I really can. In a modest but pleasant way, let the world live as it chooses, whilst, having regard for all the circumstances, allow myself, in recovery, to live as I choose.