For me sobriety sucks when I define it as doing without. Sobriety is wonderful when I define it as giving myself the gift of freedom and life.
I first resisted sobriety because I had decided in my mind that it meant a boring life of strict self discipline, deprivation and white knuckling through each day.
Then one day it dawned on me that sobriety was HAVING life, being more fully engaged with and available to relationships, experiences, satisfaction and joy.
Sobriety isn't about what I can't do, it's about all the things I can do. It opens up so many opportunites that were unavailable to me in active addiction.