**Day 301**
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**Day 301**
3 days from 10 months sober.
Drinking is not an option. I don't want it. It stinks, makes people act like idiots who talk constant repetitive ****. I can see what alcohol is, how it works and its scary stuff. It had me by my balls for so many years. Drinking on auto pilot not really even thinking what I was doing as long as it was my constant companion.
Don't know what the future brings but I know for sure that today I will not drink. What on earth could it add to my life.
I remember when I was on my first week going sober and I saw people posting with hundreds of AF days in their post. I said to myself there is no way that person could have been bad. Well I was REALLY BAD and now posting over three hundred days sober. Me? Yes me!
This is no punishment, not a will power journey. This is a lifestyle choice. I prefer to be sober more so than drunk. I can pick up a drink now if I want. But I choose not to. The desire is not there and I can follow that drink to tomorrow and I know what that tomorrow would look like. No thanks..
This is simply freedom. Life is uncomplicated and to me the way life was intended for me. I am content, Of course life has its good and bad days but I prefer to deal with the bad days without booze...
Ah bliss....
Drinking is not an option. I don't want it. It stinks, makes people act like idiots who talk constant repetitive ****. I can see what alcohol is, how it works and its scary stuff. It had me by my balls for so many years. Drinking on auto pilot not really even thinking what I was doing as long as it was my constant companion.
Don't know what the future brings but I know for sure that today I will not drink. What on earth could it add to my life.
I remember when I was on my first week going sober and I saw people posting with hundreds of AF days in their post. I said to myself there is no way that person could have been bad. Well I was REALLY BAD and now posting over three hundred days sober. Me? Yes me!
This is no punishment, not a will power journey. This is a lifestyle choice. I prefer to be sober more so than drunk. I can pick up a drink now if I want. But I choose not to. The desire is not there and I can follow that drink to tomorrow and I know what that tomorrow would look like. No thanks..
This is simply freedom. Life is uncomplicated and to me the way life was intended for me. I am content, Of course life has its good and bad days but I prefer to deal with the bad days without booze...
Ah bliss....
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Well done, Sydneyman!
Yes, we all sympathise totally with posters in their first few days and weeks. It’s a very unpleasant time with cravings and no sleep, and it takes strength and willpower to not drink. But that really is a matter of a few weeks, and then life gets much easier.
The people I struggle to sympathise with, and I don’t see any on here, are those who say “but I like my beer, why should I give up that one pleasure?” That’s an excuse not to stop by someone who’s potentially heading for health problems, and then they’ll certainly want to stop.
oops, sorry Sydneyman. Well done again 😀
Yes, we all sympathise totally with posters in their first few days and weeks. It’s a very unpleasant time with cravings and no sleep, and it takes strength and willpower to not drink. But that really is a matter of a few weeks, and then life gets much easier.
The people I struggle to sympathise with, and I don’t see any on here, are those who say “but I like my beer, why should I give up that one pleasure?” That’s an excuse not to stop by someone who’s potentially heading for health problems, and then they’ll certainly want to stop.
oops, sorry Sydneyman. Well done again 😀
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