Once upon a time I had 1 day!
Then I had 2 days!
Then I had 7!
Then came 14 days. After that I kind of lost track because I wasn't counting anymore.
I never realized two years arrived and went by because I rarely, if ever, thought about it by then.
One day I realized it had been over five years since I had become sober.
Ten years came and went.
So did fifteen years.
My awareness came back at a little before seventeen years sober in late September of 2014 when I found this site for my buddy's son-in-law. I had to think back and try to figure out just what day it was when I quit. It was on Thursday, October 23, 1997. I had to use an online calendar for that year because my first sober day was on a Friday at the end of the month just after my mother's birthday.
In just a few more hours, it will be 8080 days since October 23, 1997, when I had my last drink, and 8079 days sober. When I had my last drink, I didn't know it was going to be my last drink, it just kind of worked out that way.
Lautca