The reality has been I’ve prioritised alcohol over everything and everyone else has been a side note.
and the key to sobriety is to make RECOVERY your priority. to begin to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to stay sober.
back in the day when we talked about how to get sober, it went like this:
1) don't drink
2) go to meetings
3) follow directions
and the directions are:
1) don't drink
2) go to meetings
3) follow directions
and the directions are...........you get the point.
ideally stewy if you are told that to stay sober you must paint yourself green, and stand on your head and sing The Star Spangled Banner or Danny Boy or O Tannenbaum, you'd DO IT. you'd have enough faith in others who ARE sober, and enough humility to realize you don't know the first thing about HOW to not drink. you'd have that much WILLINGNESS.