half a year
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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half a year
this is an interesting day...
i am glad that i have a chance to reflect on the last few years of my life and really feel the difference in my spirit and my daily outlook. drinking never made me a better person (although i really thought it helped... really... i was wrong). sobriety made me a real person, a person who is honest with himself more and more. honesty, kindness and humbleness is what makes me a little better each day.
i was oblivious to any of that when i was drunk. after all alcohol was my solution to most, if not all of life's problems.
i didn't have to drink on daily basis to be addicted. only when i became sober and a little more educated about recovery and substance abuse did i understand how deep my addiction really was.
actually 1.5 years ago was the time i signed up on this forum determined to put my drinking to rest.
to make the long story short i did have a relapse this year (well half a year ago)...
however, looking back at these 1.5 years, i can say that they were really the most interesting and honestly greatest of my life so far. i have to thank sobriety for it.
waking up from a fog of drinking was so impossible, but so worth it.
i guess the experience of a relapse, being so naive as to think i could drink "normally", the misunderstanding of my own emotions prior to it and learning so much more about addiction, made me much stronger today.
this sober lifestyle is something i enjoy very much. it's really not about how long i've gone without drinking. finding joy in life without alcohol is great. there is a purpose.
i have much to learn. but i can now. and it is exciting.
i am glad that i have a chance to reflect on the last few years of my life and really feel the difference in my spirit and my daily outlook. drinking never made me a better person (although i really thought it helped... really... i was wrong). sobriety made me a real person, a person who is honest with himself more and more. honesty, kindness and humbleness is what makes me a little better each day.
i was oblivious to any of that when i was drunk. after all alcohol was my solution to most, if not all of life's problems.
i didn't have to drink on daily basis to be addicted. only when i became sober and a little more educated about recovery and substance abuse did i understand how deep my addiction really was.
actually 1.5 years ago was the time i signed up on this forum determined to put my drinking to rest.
to make the long story short i did have a relapse this year (well half a year ago)...
however, looking back at these 1.5 years, i can say that they were really the most interesting and honestly greatest of my life so far. i have to thank sobriety for it.
waking up from a fog of drinking was so impossible, but so worth it.
i guess the experience of a relapse, being so naive as to think i could drink "normally", the misunderstanding of my own emotions prior to it and learning so much more about addiction, made me much stronger today.
this sober lifestyle is something i enjoy very much. it's really not about how long i've gone without drinking. finding joy in life without alcohol is great. there is a purpose.
i have much to learn. but i can now. and it is exciting.
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: London
Posts: 1,010
Congratulations on 6 months! I love reading posts like yours as it gives me so much hope. I feel amazing and I'm glad that it will continue. I'm scared of a slip but I hope I can learn from others' experiences.
Thank you so much for posting about your incredible journey
S x
Thank you so much for posting about your incredible journey
S x
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Grand Rapids MI
Posts: 6,435
Congrats! It takes what it takes to get sober. There is no way I would have quit without the 20+ years of pain and suffering. Guess I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I am sober
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Australia
Posts: 342
Hey Serious, your story resonates
I am 6 months too.
I know what you are saying about the 12 months before the slip. I had a 12 month period too. Where I greatly reduced my alcohol intake but couldnt quite pull the trigger. Still holding out faint hope of moderation for life. Was just too much hard work. Sounds like you have figured that out too, your own way.
Stay strong friend.
I am 6 months too.
I know what you are saying about the 12 months before the slip. I had a 12 month period too. Where I greatly reduced my alcohol intake but couldnt quite pull the trigger. Still holding out faint hope of moderation for life. Was just too much hard work. Sounds like you have figured that out too, your own way.
Stay strong friend.
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