I’m a COVID baby, recovery-wise. Everything shut down at the very same time I came out of rehab. Well, everything but liquor stores and food markets.
I’ve absolutely thrived emotionally during this time, even though there have been some significant personal challenges. I’m fortunate to be able to work from home and for me, absolutely nothing was lost when I ceased the time-suck commute and no longer have to deal with many of the social aspects of working in the office.
I consider myself to be fortunate indeed to have stopped drinking just before lock-down. Seems to me I would’ve taken the situation as a gift from the universe otherwise. (Whoo hoo! I can drink around the clock - no withdrawals, no worries about being smelly and shaky and sick around other people because I can’t drink at work!)
Rather than wishing for a return to ‘normal,’ I’m starting to plan how to avoid that. No way do I want to go back to how it was.
O