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Old 04-08-2013, 04:55 PM
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soberlicious
 
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I don't see how wishing I wasn't an alcoholic suggests future use of alcohol.
Wishing you could drink moderately is wishing that you could...um...drink...alcohol. It's AV.

I wish I could throw a football like Payton Manning. This does not remotely suggest that I am about to quit my job and try out for the NFL. I might see a hot chick holding a beer, and think 'she's hot'. I don't see this as suggesting either future drinking or infidelity.
That's because you recognize these thoughts for what they are...they are not things you would actually do and you recognize that that's why you are easily able to have them and dismiss them without analyzing them at all. You know that actually quitting your job to pursue an NFL career or having an affair with a hot chick are not really YOU. So you have the thought, part of you gets a little rush about the thought, then you go "nah"...

sidenote...it is logistically much easier to pick up a bottle than enter the NFL or hide a hot chick.
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