Understanding your emotions
I just want to share something I have discovered in the past three weeks of soberty, my first three weeks of soberty in almost 9 years.
Understanding and dealing with your own emotions is essential, it's impossivel to be happy or in confort all the time, life is never an easy ride, bad moments come and go and that's a natural law, there's nothing we can do about it other than deal with it and getting stronger from experiences.
Alcohol offers an escapism to that, instead of knowing and understanding yourself and the way you feel you get drunk and numb yourself from reality, of course you can't scape from next day so in the moring after drinking you get far more depressed than you were in the first place. Only soberty offers a real path to happines, walking through the hard times and learning from it.
Being sober is the ultimate drug, because you deal with reality just as it is and since life is already a rollercoaster you can't get any more drunk or high than that.