Originally Posted by freshstart57

When I say I will never drink again, in a way I am making a statement about the present rather than the future. I consider that I have sliced and diced my entire future regarding alcohol into an unknowable number of infinitesimally small lumps, instants that represent a series of present moments stretching from now until my last breath. Every one of those lumps will be a present moment when they happen, in their turn, just like this one right now. I am confident in my future sobriety because I know with certainty I will not now drink. I got that one nailed.

In other words, I will never now drink. I believe that this is something knowable, with certainty.