Everyone rolls in different ways, but my own personal experience, relevant to at least just me, after 8+ years sober is, I was happier once I moved out of early recovery mode and started spending more time and energy on living life now, rather than staying stuck in the past. I was pretty much recovered, past-tense, after 2-3 years, so maintaining that newcomer passion for recovery seemed misplaced and increasingly irrelevant to what my right-now life was like. I still keep a foot in recovery world, go to a couple meetings a year, maintain a website, post here, etc., but it's a little foot to keep me from forgetting where I was, and to hopefully give a little back to the community. The rest of the time, I'm just another guy who happens to not drink alcohol, and doesn't spend any energy on it.