There's a lovely saying about wearing sobriety as a loose cloak.
That means I'm not sure about words like 'fight' and 'work' as applied to recovery. To me it's much more about surrendering; letting go, keeping out of the way, and just putting one foot in front the other. For an alcoholic like me, those things do take disciplined effort and direction from others more experienced - however, this doesn't constitute that holding on tight, gritted teeth hard work - it's effort of a very different kind, at least it's that way for me. And anyway, don't know about you, but active alcoholism was bloody hard work. Enough of that for one lifetime.
Or, could be, I'm just lazy
