I voted yes but in the beginning, I had no idea what it was like to be sober. None.
I thought life would be just like it was when I drank but without drinking. I could not have been more wrong. Sobriety and not drinking are not the same thing, at least for me they are not.
Sobriety is peace and serenity. Sobriety is letting go of the pain, anger, hurt and resentments. Sobriety is being free from the desire to control and the frustration that goes with that. Sobriety is cleaning off my slice of life in this world and with the best of my ability, keeping it that way. Sobriety is working my recovery program, being a friend and giving back to another alcoholic what was given to me. Sobriety is much more then the definition.
The dictionary says it is a noun, I say it is a verb. A verb is action and sobriety is an action to me.
Nouns answer the question: “What?”, while verbs are action words which answer the question: ‘How?’
Sobriety is my how. Honesty, Open mind, Willingness