Katie, ever notices how the future stretches out forever and the past seems to have flown by? Ask yourself where you want to be in a year's time.
It seems like a year is soooo long when you have it in front of you and you're struggling to get through one day without drinking. Yet a year will be gone before you know; do you want it to be a year where you won the battle against alcoholism, or one you wasted with a wine?
Cow, is right too. Some of the most famous people in history had terrible low times when they doubted everything they were working for. Hold your nerve.