Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 14,069
Maybe you are more cautious this time. A relapse as you know will wreck any good mood in sobriety. This time perhaps your stoic determination to stay sober tempers your joy a tad. You are focusing more on living sober in the long term and maybe your enthusiasm is replaced with contentment, a deeper joy that comes with doing hard work with success.
Keep up the good effort because it gets better.