Resiliency, adaptability, determination, perseverance, clarity, honesty, peace... creativity.
I struggle with the last one though. Years ago before I was drinking heavily, it seemed I was much more connected to things, and the creativity seemed effortless. It sometimes feels like an insurmountable thing to get back to that place.
I've heard people say they're grateful they're addicts, or at least, recovered ones, because it led them to who they are now. And I can understand and appreciate that.
We can't go back in time and make different choices, and we surely are some kind of an amalgamation of all those experiences along the way. They're lodged there somewhere in our consciousnesses.
Maybe it's that I have an appreciation for what I've been through and that I wouldn't be in such a good place right now had I not overcome my addiction.