Lionhearted1

What would you tell yourself about recovery if you could go back to When you was younger and drinking still...??

IndaMiricale

I truly believe I was made to live just the way it all happened.. I have no regrets on it..


I am proud to be a recoving alcoholic and addict today.

jsch

I can't say I don't have any regrets. I wish got this thing sooner. Save me and some others some wreckage. But I guess it was my path. At least I finally did get it. Many of us never do. I'm just grateful I'm living better and healthier now!

Delilah1

Great question! I think I would like a Christmas Carol version of my life the ghost of drinking past (so I could see all of my stupidity in action) , recovery present (along with the difficulty to get started and stick with it) and future sober and what the future would look like if I hadn't stopped drinking.

SASA

i would tell myself, it will all work out

Liv2011

"the ghost of drinking past" that made me laugh so hard - I am still laughing. Thanks!

Delilah1

I just hope he or she doesn't show up in my room tonight!!!!

Bgh2002

I would tell myself the truth about what I would become. To stay away from drugs, and warn myself about the girl I chose to put my love into and what would become of that.

But, if I did all of that. I wouldn't be where I am now, wouldn't have a wonderful daughter, wouldn't have this mindset. Who knows though. Would taking all of that pain away really be worth risking those things?

Lionhearted1

Lol that was funny....I hope it dont show up in your room tonight aswell....lol

snoopy87

I would have told myself, if nothing changes then nothing changes. I also would have told myself not everyone is dying to hear from me at 3am to hear how much I "love" them.

FreeFall

Back away from the Captain Morgan!!!

I wish I had learned this way back in my early twenties. I don't have a ton of regrets, but alcohol was definitely a major player in the things I do regret.

hypochondriac

'Just do it, stop making excuses and saying you'll quit tomorrow and do it today!' I spent so much wasted time thinking about some imaginary point in the future when I would be well adjusted and drinking normally, or giving up later. I wish I knew that life could be more satisfying when I wasn't running away from it.

nogard

I try not to do what if's these days and just get on with today

DoubleBarrel

That going back out to try and drink "normally" at 25 would take FIFTEEN YEARS of miserable drinking to get sober again.

Tippingpoint

I suppose I could have quit a little earlier than I did...maybe 5 years.

Not going to worry too much about that though.

guulan

I would tell myself just feel it and deal with it , don't numb it .

Another

I would say to myself that sobriety means not living life like a zombie. Also your judgement is skewed in most areas and nobody like yourself can correct that. Your greatest gift is this life, Shine bright for all

mfanch

I wouldn't change a thing.

Sazzle

I would tell myself that they didn't get more attractive, I got more drunk. Beer goggles are not fun. Regrets of poor bedfellow choices are not fun. Blackouts are not fun.

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Itchy

Couldn't have said it better than you or Dylan.