Great thread - thank you for posting and sharing!
As i do often, I COMPLETELY agree with what MissPerfumado said, all of it.
I don't live in fear, but I have never let down that last few percentage points of my potential for relapse - and working a VERY dedicated AA program, creating recovery as the backdrop of my life, has gotten me to 28 mo and 1 day. The only "finish line" I imagine is dying sober.
One more comment to add the the others that people have already made -
the clarity and flat removed web of thinking, deciding, worrying etc about drinking is one of the BEST things about recovery. That took up so much of my energy for so long.
Best to you- hope you read around and look for similarities, not differences, to your (hopeful) progress.