I know hat if I stay sober it is a good thing that everything went to hell at a young age. And I know it's not productive to feel like a terrible person for how fast it went for me. I just still so often feel like so much less of a person than someone who can drink for years with "rigid, obsessive control," like courage2 said.
(Also, oh, dang, no, I didn't mean to imply I had 55 days straight. I only have 18, it's just that I had 35 and relapsed briefly and then got 18. Sorry.)