Originally Posted by
pennywistle 
My friend seemed really healthy and happy today. I don't understand!
I'm guessing it's just a matter of time?
It did not make me in the least jealous or thinking that it was possible for me to drink alcohol like a normal person, in fact it just made my resolve to stay quit even stronger, but I don't get it.
Maybe they weren't a real alcoholic in the first place and just needed a "cooling off" phase to get their lives back in order.
My experience though (and hopefully some of the folks with decades in recovery will respond here as well) is that even a real alkie who goes back to drinking......even IF they can moderate for quite a while......will always end up right back in the squirrel cage - only worse off that the previous times.
I'm with ya penny. Watching someone do that usually is a good wake-up call to me.......a reminder.........that THE dumbest decision we'll ever make is one we make "sober" - the decision that we can pick up that first drink and believe things will be different this time.