It all depends on what you do to start living a life that means something more to you than the illusory pleasures that come with drinking. I needed to work on making some difficult and significant changes in my attitudes, thinking and behavior in order to move past my misery. This never happens as a result of thinking or introspection. It is, instead, the result of what we do to build a better life.
Many of us fail in life, or at different times in our lives, because we pay a great deal of attention to what we're losing, rather than focusing on and working towards all that we have to gain. And to give. And this is among the saddest of all conditions in which we can choose to live our lives.