it takes until you are honestly ready to decide that it's over....
it takes until you decide, without reservation, to live a better, happier, richer, more present and rewarding life.
it takes until you've been beaten down enough by your own failed attempts to "prove" that you can include alcohol in your life - that you finally decide it's just not worth it.
it takes until you let go of the fantasy that life somehow requires you to pour toxic liquid into your body in order to be fun, worthy, successful or fulfilled.
it takes until you're ready to decide that if a CHILD can live life happily and joyfully without booze - then certainly you can too.
it takes until you let go of all the baloney notions that you're somehow going to 'miss out' and instead decide to give your all to learning all the very REAL things you've been MISSING OUT ON because of booze.
it takes, very simply, as many times as it takes until YOU. DECIDE. TO. CHANGE.
Because at the end of the day.... higher powers are immensely helpful. friends and support and changes in habit and therapy and meditation and AA and rehab and exercise and gratitude lists and a zillion other things are fantastic tools but NONE of them will be the answer.....
Until. You. Choose.
