Tazman53

I was talking to some folks after a meeting a week ago Sunday when suddenly I became aware of something that surprised me......

It felt normal to be sober!!!

Anyone else ever felt this?

problemchild

Not yet Taz but still searching........

Astro

Normal? Normal? Hmmm.........

When I'm around other alcoholics I guess it's the commonalities that help me feel normal and never too unique.

Glad to hear you felt thay way, Taz. Sounds like growth and progress!

GrouchoTheCat

There are still times that I want to drink, but most of the time I don't.

It feels good to be sober and relaxed and I suppose I am getting that more and more often.

Thanks for pointing this out. It is a feeling that is worth acknowleding.

Ted

Cathy31

Totally, Taz! Especially when I'm feeling really happy or I'm having fun, and I'm suddenly like, wow it wasn't always like this! It's so awesome to be sober and have these moments of poor joy - it's really miraculous!

Cathy31
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PaperDolls

I don't think I'll ever be normal.
Sober or not.

CarolD

PaperDolls

but I am better sober......just not normal.

stone

Normal is overrated PD.

Rowan

Yes - it DOES feel normal to be sober. It feels great!

stone

You STOLE my avatar!!

Barto

I’ve been sober more years than I drank now. It is hard to imagine what it would feel like to be drunk. Don’t get me wrong, I still remember the crappy life I had; it is just hard to imagine that old feeling. And may WE never experience it again!

Rowan

What are you on about?

Tazman53

Folks I think some of you misunderstood what I am feeling, I am far from normal!!!! LOL It just struck me as kind of odd that it felt normal to be sober. I had not felt like that in years........ For many years I had lived either drunk, getting drunk, coming off a drunk, drowsy, run down, in a fog......... I just had this sudden realization that I had been sober long enough to where I felt that feeling sober in the morning was normal.

I very rarely had a hang over unless I had drank a lot of wine or was mixing hard liquor and beer, a "normal" feeling in the morning for me when I was drinking was kind of a fog...... a slowness..... an unawareness of what was really going on, not a buzz, but damn sure not sober.

PC I have almost a year sober now, I am not sure if everyone ever gets that feeling which is why I was asking the question, it still seems weird to me after probably 25-30 years of never being fully sober for me to feel that way.

Ted I still occasionally have fleeting thoughts of a drink, do not get me wrong in any way, I am very aware that I am one drink away from a drunk and possibly one drunk away from death.

Cathy that is what I am talking about, it has suddenly become normal to enjoy the miracle! There is no way I could have ever enjoyed that miracle without having walked through hell.

Me either paperdolls, but then again what is normal? A normal person would not be amazed at how it feels to wake up and feel normal being sober, that is how they wake up almost all the time, they did not spend 40 years in a fog.

Barto if I lived to be 92 and stayed sober I would be even! LOL I will say a big AMEN to never experience a drunk again!

PaperDolls

I knew what you meant Taz.

Remember when it used to feel normal to be drunk.
Everyone got that drunk, right?

And yes, normal is way over rated. Imagine how boring SR would
be if we were all normal.

Tazman53

LOL And the rooms of AA would be just as boring to.

I have found it is really fun being crazy and sober, I do not get into trouble any more when I am a bit crazy!