There is plenty more pain and suffering out there for you to experience as long as you continue drinking. Eventually you will lose your social life because most people don't like to hang with drunks except other drunks.
Life is about choices but choosing to drink if you are an alcoholic never has a happy ending.
Sobriety for me required me to create a new sober life. Sober friends and sober activities. We convince ourselves that most activities revolve around alcohol and this is simply not true