Was One Never Enough?
As I was sitting here reading the forums this morning...on day 4 of sobriety for the millionth time...
Every wonder why one was never enough? I was thinking about this process....there is an initial urge to drink...for me....it was an itch I couldn't scratch....never satisfied! After that first drink, the inhibitions are already lowered and the rationalization of stopping right there is gone. The first drink's gone, then there's the 2nd urge to drink. That one ends and well there's the 3rd urge to drink...and so on and so on...ad nausea...
Here's my point...
For everyone out there fighting that urge to pick up the first drink....remember that "one" drink will NEVER make that urge go away...the only thing it will do is make that 2nd urge more powerful!! ...(and the 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc....) Stay in power...don't give the urge anymore power than it already has by fooling yourself into thinking a drink is what you need or deserve. You deserve to stay in power!
Think of every time you don't drink as strengthening that power!