Just counted: 41 Days :D
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Just counted: 41 Days :D
I realized I've been sober for a while, but wasn't too sure. Fortunately I posted when I last drank, and since it has been 41 days!
Woot!
It's exciting to be sober. I'm still early in, but boy do things get very different, very fast.
The first 2 months that I was trying to get sober and here on SR (May-June), I was pretty confused. I knew I wanted to get sober, came here with that sole and earnest intention, but I still slipped almost weekly.
You guys tried to warn me that sobriety is something you learn, but I just kept trying to force myself right into it. Sure enough, the reason that I slipped those first months is because I didn't understand that I had to relearn so much of life. I never would have thought that answering the phone would become something that I'd have to take a breath and fortify myself for prior, but before I learned to do that I wasn't ready to say "No" when offered to meet and drink with someone.
Lots of things like that, but I guess I've been pretty good with retaining what I learned from my slips, as well as applying the foreknowledge to slow down my actions now, and to consider the possibility that if drinking becomes present, what I will do to keep myself sober and above it.
I've learned a lot, and honestly the things I'm learning from sobriety apply in so much more than just preventing drinking. I feel infinitely more human and intelligent now than I ever have before, and the reason why is because I'm not basing myself off of obscure ideas and feelings so to justify substance and self abuse, and am now basing myself off of me and what I truly want out of life, which is to live it meaningfully, of course
Best wishes, everyone!
Woot!
It's exciting to be sober. I'm still early in, but boy do things get very different, very fast.
The first 2 months that I was trying to get sober and here on SR (May-June), I was pretty confused. I knew I wanted to get sober, came here with that sole and earnest intention, but I still slipped almost weekly.
You guys tried to warn me that sobriety is something you learn, but I just kept trying to force myself right into it. Sure enough, the reason that I slipped those first months is because I didn't understand that I had to relearn so much of life. I never would have thought that answering the phone would become something that I'd have to take a breath and fortify myself for prior, but before I learned to do that I wasn't ready to say "No" when offered to meet and drink with someone.
Lots of things like that, but I guess I've been pretty good with retaining what I learned from my slips, as well as applying the foreknowledge to slow down my actions now, and to consider the possibility that if drinking becomes present, what I will do to keep myself sober and above it.
I've learned a lot, and honestly the things I'm learning from sobriety apply in so much more than just preventing drinking. I feel infinitely more human and intelligent now than I ever have before, and the reason why is because I'm not basing myself off of obscure ideas and feelings so to justify substance and self abuse, and am now basing myself off of me and what I truly want out of life, which is to live it meaningfully, of course
Best wishes, everyone!
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