Excellent post, Draumwave. Your '7 Components of Life' are really good and I can really relate to this part of your story
" I started feeling like I did back when I was a kid before alcohol and weed."
This, for me, is probably the biggest benefit of my sobriety. I started smoking weed heavily at 14 and the alcohol abuse followed a couple of years later. I would never have thought it possible to feel the way I did back then after 10 years of hating myself and being a pretty terrible person. Quitting alcohol and finally stopping the synthetic pot has returned the "real" me.
Thanks for sharing, Draumwave