Originally Posted by
WhyNotNowMe 
What I have been doing the year was working 14 hours a day. My regular job and uber after work. I think I snatched and want to party. I work on Christmas and new years eve. I should have focus on my self and now I'm here watching tv and drinking. 😢
In the work I do - the term "good work, life balance" is thrown around a lot. I'm not sure how many of us achieve it but I think it is very necessary to finding some semblance of peace or contentment. We all gotta work (well most of us). Why is that you need to work so much? Do you have weekends off? Any time to yourself? Sometimes..well, in my past - too much time to my self was a recipe to get plastered. Are you lonely? I know that is a big trigger for me and it has upended more of my sobrieties than I care to count.
I admitted both out loud and to myself not all that long ago that I was in fact "lonely".... somewhere in that realization I knew that I was also responsible for that lonelieness. It's soooooo much easier to reach for a bottle than reach for help...for a friend...for a telephone... for a book or magazine....for a newspaper to tell us what's going on in our town.
A dear friend told me that years ago "you drink because it's easy". You go and grab a bottle of wine and go home. And I'm a phone call away ya know - my damn kids are grown".
There are no answers for what ails us at the bottom of a bottle. There really and truly is not.