Originally Posted by
Tommyh 
"I choose not to drink today"
of course we could make a decision to go get a drink if we really wanted too.I could right now if I wanted too,but right now,I do not want a drink of booze.
So,I just made a choice to not drink,whether I wanted a drink or not.
Yup. Same here. Its my choice if I drink or dont drink. Before sobriety I always chose to drink alcohol, even when I didn't choose to drink I of course drank anyways; any chronic alcoholic will understand that "no" means "yes" when your drinking.
That particular problem around that always-yes-choice is now gone because my alcoholism is arrested. My power of choice is restored simply because my alcoholic mind is not calling the shots anymore, pun intended 
I'm now free to stay sober, as I so choose, and I'm also free to royally frigg it all up again too. That is the whole deal -- to be free enough to actually CHOOSE not to drink. Awesome.
So I've been enjoying my choices now for many years -- and I'm not alone. I see my brothers and sisters here there, and everywhere living the same freedom from alcoholism that I live!
Good stuff, Tommy.