yeahgr8

So a few years or so have passed. Life is getting more normal by the day, you have changed and you are fitting like a glove into society and normal living.

People go out and have a couple of drinks every so often, it doesn't bother them in the slightest. You, on the other hand, have had dreadful experiences with alcohol.

Putting aside all the mottos, sayings, fear etc and answering what you really think for yourself.

Why would you not have a drink?

Dee74

Cos I remember

I'm dealing with this now - I'm in a new part of town, near old friends - it's been very social.

I'm not the same guy I used to be - I know I'm better without getting drunk or high - but I am also exactly the same guy I used to be - and I forget that at my peril..

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NoelleR

Why not? ...cause I don't want one.

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NoelleR

jdooner

I think it is impossible to put aside fear. That is like saying why not jump in front of traffic. Yes it may provide a thrill but its a risk reward calculation. To me drugs and alcohol are the same.

Why would I not take a drink? Alcohol never did anything for me. I enjoyed the high just like I enjoyed cocaine. In fact, of the two I would prefer cocaine. So if there is no buzz then why drink? I just don't see the benefit - empty calories just like bread for me.

airwick

I wouldn't have a drink because I don't NEED too No matter what some believe or think......I got the POWER to say NO to alcohol If that thinking works for me, I'm going to keep believing

DoubleBarrel

I don't consume poison
And that is not metaphor. It is literally a deadly poison that will destroy my life.

I also don't crave gasoline, rat pellets, antifreeze or bleach.

Raider

Because I'm so afraid to go back and be "that" person again. I'm just scared.

Aellyce

Why would I have a drink? I see no reason.

nandm

Because I know that drinking will not make my life better in any way in fact, it has a great potential to make it significantly worse. That I know from past experience. I know that when faced with a problem and the thought that of a drink comes up that taking a drink will not solve the problem it will leave me with a hang over, the distinct possibility of regrets of what I have done while drunk, I will have a lot of drama to contend with, and the problem will still be there but if I don't pick up a drink then I can just work on a solution and my life will improve. Sobriety is a solution for me, drinking is not. I choose my life to be about solutions today not drama.

paulokes

I don't miss p1ssing the bed

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Gottalife

It doesn't occur to me to take a drink. No thought or fear, no memory. The problem has been removed, it does not exist anymore. I have about as much choice to drink today as I used to have not to drink.

24hrsAday

[QUOTE=yeahgr8;4910090] you have changed and you are fitting like a glove into society and normal living.

^ not sure i would say this about myself.

24hrsAday

Seriously though.. there are a TON of Excuses... (it's a Neverending supply) but, there are no good reasons. i am loving my life clean and sober..

anattaboy

I do not drink alcohol.

findingout

Because even though I no longer suffer from the disease of alcoholism, I am still an alcoholic.

tomsteve

in the time it would take a drink to get from my lips to my stomach my past would become my future.

the main reason today being because I have been restored to sanity.

Boleo

"And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality - safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition."

(page 84-85)

SoberLeigh

Because drinking took my soul . . . I worked too hard to get it back . . . . . I know that if I drank, it would slip away again.

SoberLeigh

AND, I don't want my beautiful little grandchildren to ever see the "Other" Leigh.

least

I don't want to go back to that awful existence. I was always miserable and sick. I like my sober life and don't want to mess it up.