I know what you mean, he barely even talked to me. I really don't want anyone to be hurt by seeing my sobriety. Rather use it as inspiration, one of my sober friends joked and said "if that crazy drunk Dustin (me) can do it, everyone can definitely do it. That pride does feel good doesn't it. Like yeahhhh, you all looked at me real bad when I was so low... It doesn't feel good when others do that to you does it. Not that I would ever do that to anyone struggling. My "friends" are not the greatest people to be around, I would've declined the invite had I known who all was showing up.
Someone told me the only thing you have to change is everything, literally everything is changing for me too. Some of it really without any effort on my part. Im turning into a brand new person and its very exciting.