FreeOwl

I spent a fair lot of time in my first year of sobriety feeling as though I was somehow 'missing out'.

I lamented the 'loss'.

I had to work pretty hard, every day, to focus my thoughts on the positives I was gaining instead of the things I felt I'd 'had to give up'.

More than four years into this sobriety journey.... there really is nothing I miss about drinking. Nothing.

I don't miss wasting all that valuable life, pouring poison into my body.

I don't miss being fuzzy-headed.

I don't miss the elated feelings that were all fake.

I don't miss spending money on something to pour in and pee out.

I don't miss hangovers, headaches, violent retching.

I don't miss the taste of the beer or the wine or the liquor.

I miss none of it. It turns out "missing out" was all as big a big fat LIE as the idea that living sober would be "no fun".

Alcohol.... drinking......

Ahhhh.... the things that I MISSED because I didn't want to miss DRINKING!!!

There is nothing I miss about drinking.

Komplex

Great read to start my day out. Thank you!

Obtainingpeace

Thanks for this Free Owl.
Great read to start my day!

Gabe1980

Thanks for this Freeowl. I arsed it all up again because I felt I was missing out, or no fun, or losing something. You're right. It's all a lie.

FreeOwl

Been there.

Don't fall for it again.

I promise you, the goodness of sobriety is no lie.

August252015

My now husband says I told him with certainty on our first date (July 2016 - we married last Dec) that "everything is better sober." He was a month into his recovery and I was almost 5. H said he didn't quit believe me, but I was so sure that he wanted to know more. It was only a couple months later that he told me I was right. And everything about our life together is made possible and good because we are sober.

Stronger2017

👍👍

RP4595

Amen..
Great post

Snowydelrico

Free owl I agree, it is the biggest lie out there.
I say it quite a lot to people and they just don’t get it.
You are a wise owl.

Delizadee

It's that one friend that you think is your best friend, but is really that toxic friend that sucks your life blood out of you.
Yeeep
Once it's gone you can't figure out what you saw in it in the first place.

Snowydelrico

How about this for a whopper.
Here have this nice cool refreshing beer. That hits the spot.

It’s a poison, poison is not refreshing I think you will find.