Hi and welcome back.
What you say is fairly accurate because the thinking is short term sobriety as I see it with many. That’s bad seeing that a small % can make it back into sobriety after relapsing.
For success long term it takes work and change within us to succeed. This period in our life seems more concentrated in todays performance and not the long term effects.
Ask people here about their life sober compared to a few years ago before they stopped drinking. And it gets better, never would I have expected in my wildest dreams to be able to do some of the things I grateful to have been able to do since becoming sober.
Did I mention WORK AND CHANGE?
BE WELL