I think that although I'm newly sober the things involved in drinking are so tragic and sad...I was blacking out so much and behaving like an idiot so much so that it's not fun anymore. I think it actually stopped being fun for me years ago but I kept drinking because that's just what people do...after moving back to the midwest i thought "what else is there to do". I went almost a year once without drinking after being free from alcohol and I loved it. I cooked, i worked out, I had motivation and $ to do the things I want instead of spending all my time and resources looking for the next drunken good time.