Newbeginning421

Is it one is it two or is it three?

BeABetterMan

Drunk or just bored?

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I don't get it.

Newbeginning421

A little bit of both but plan to be sober for good after I get back to my home. I don't have same desire to get drunk it has all been a huge waste. I really dont understand why I drink anymore. Nothing gets accomplished and have no desire after I reach a point to keep going forward. So not moderation but there is no point to keep drinking. I actually hate it cause it takes a lot out of me and see no purpose to it at this point. I used to enjoy it now not so much so

Steely

I never enjoy it anymore NewBeginnings. A total waste of time and always harrowing. Hope you decide to pack it in for good.

What's a POP? We had these stupid Alcopops here, designed to hook kids. I think they got banned. Hope so.

Stay safe NB.

Dee74

I don;t know what a POP is but to be honest it doesn't sound much like a recovery question.

Are you still at your friends place outside the city? I'm sorry the plan of staying sober there didn't pan out.
Hows your mother doing?

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SnazzyDresser

Very true, it starts turning into a burden instead of a release. A "have-to" instead of a "want-to" or "get-to". Our bodies start signaling to us that the alcohol good times are over forever. And nothing good comes from ignoring those signals, just continued worsening misery.

I get the old Tootsie Pop commercial reference btw.

nez

I know exactly what you mean and have been there. Hell the last few years of my drinking. I was drinking even though I didn't want to. Luckily I didn't have to know the answer or understand that question to make sobriety stick. I just needed to understand why I didn't drink any more.

Over the years the answer to the question has slowly come to me. Every time a little bit more of the answer comes to me, it precedes a growth period. As long as I trust the process of recovery, I get the right answers at the right times, so that it is a flow, like a river; not a jumbled hodge podge that I can't make heads nor tails of.

nez

I thought of that as well, but me being me, I also conjured up barley pop.

Kdon853

As soon as I cracked my first beer my day was over, no accomplishments nothing just drink.

brighterday1234

There’s a lot more available in this life than drinking alcohol. Glad I realised this 🙏

Steely

How you doing NewBeginnings?

Newbeginning421

Just finished watching the show the good place and feel like I am in a bad place. For a show that starts off as a comedy it hits pretty hard!

gypsytears

I watched a few episodes of that show. I didn’t care for it. Sorry you’re in a bad place newbegginning. Maybe try to find a show that is actually a comedy .

The answer to the title of the thread is 3. It takes 3 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop .

BeABetterMan

You sound like a "licker" expert Gypsy. Do you have a "licker" license? Haha, get it, licker? On an alcohol forum? Haha, oh man, I crack me up. Is this thing on?

gypsytears

BaBM! Actually I’m more of a biter. Watch out .

BeABetterMan

Gulp!

Dee74

Hows it going newbeginnings?

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Surrendered19

I'm missing all sorts of pop culture references I think. The confusion of an old man. How are you newbeginnings? Sober? Doesn't matter. What's going on?

C0ntr0ls

I took the POP to reference the older tootsie pop commercial but after reaching out to my good friend Google, I read it may reference something else..

A licking machine (oh yeah, a licking machine!) developed at Purdue University took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. At the same institution, 20 individuals conducted the same experiment and averaged 252 licks to complete the task