Originally Posted by
PhoenixJ 
It also serves as a poignant reminder- 1 day sober, 10 years sober- time means squat. The discipline not to drink, to treat every day as day 1 for the rest of my life is my mindset.
Two things I have always found very strange is people competing over their bottoms, and waxing ever more poetically as sober time is accumulated and brandished. I don't believe it helps anyone in the grand scheme of things to buy into a hierarchy based on either metric.