Good morning, and welcome to September, everyone.
Day 6 here. I can relate a lot to what you are all saying about seeing alcohol everywhere-- on TV and such. Yeah, people drink all the time on TV but they are on TV, not real. It's so easy to romanticize the drink and those images really help us do that, but in the real world there are consequences to be paid if you drink all day, every day, like I did. So maybe when I look at those images I should retrain my brain to think "poison," and to look into that person's future to the emergency room visits and the excruciating pain that is undoubtedly waiting for them. That's how I'm choosing to look at things these days because, even with all that in my recent past, it's all too easy to forget when the AV starts blabbering away.
Here's the thing. The AV is insane. It wants me to die. Now I can look it in the eye and say, "are you nuts? I might as well drink antifreeze." That's what it is to me.
Enjoy your Tuesday, sober friends!
