Originally Posted by
LadyBlue0527 
Have I thought about alcohol? Sure. However, I don't have an option so I'm forced to do what I need to do to get past the urge. No excuses. I'm happier than I ever have been since I was a child. Filling my life with things that I want to do. I can be a victim and pout, cry, and be angry that I can't drink or I can be a survivor and be better for it. I choose the latter.
Some say "but it's not that easy". Yes, yes it is. It's all in what you make up your mind to do. The quicker you decide that you can't drink, no excuses, and the more you fill your life with the things necessary to distance yourself from it the happier you'll be.
Excellent words. I need to remember this.
Like I said in a different thread, my biggest obstacle at the moment is trying to stop romanticizing about the great times I had when drinking and to stop longing for more of those great times.
I keep asking myself, if I poured a drink right now will it magically become a good time and a good memory? I know it wouldn't.
It is just so hard to let the "active alcoholic me" die.