"How can someone make it for 24 years?"
8760 days,one day at a time. however, there was prolly a LOT of footwork involved during those days.
24 years is a long time, but im willing to bet that woman, like myself, knows 4 days is an eternity.
" I am afraid to drink again because I do not ever want to have to stop again..."
that to me is a healthy fear
"...but I am also afraid to think about not drinking. "
fear of the unknown was a bugger for me. I drank for so many years I really didn't know what life without alcohol would be like. I decided to trust them people at the meetings, people I had never met, that as long as I kept goin back and did what the big book suggested, I wouldn't have that fear anymore.
they were right.