Lindsey

Those cigarettes that get lost in the ashtray, so you find yourself smoking ash when you take a drag..

I also don't miss those hungover mornings. I don't miss having to eat those breath mints. Nor keeping away from people in case they got close enough to smell me.

And I don't miss waking up in the morning and thinking, "how the hell did I act last night/what did I say/post/what was that movie about?"

This evening I am grateful beyond words to be sober!

Hugs,

Lindsey

na4today

I second that!
na4today

junem

I don't miss looking in the mirror wondering if I have any sighs of jaundice and trying to palpate my own liver and wondering if my heart is getting mushy from alcoholic myopathy. I don't miss the way my hands used to tremble during the morning and how I would try to move about quickly so no one would notice that my whole body was shakey. I don't miss wondering how much money I spent the night before and wondering how I am going to pay my bills.

TechGuy

I'm in tune with all of that.

sherbear5104

And I never want to forget that those things happened!

hopealwayz

At least now we all have a choice and we never have to go back if we don't want to.

kckman

It is good to have a choice. Today I am choosing not to go back there.

Ashes

I'm so naive that I never before realized that other people went through these things too. I'm just now starting to learn that I'm not alone.

I'm looking forward to "missing" those things too!

~ashes

Cathy31

Absolutely! I can so relate to all that and as Sherbear says - I don't want to forget it happened either!

I do not think I have ever experienced a WORSE feeling than the shame and remorse on waking up with a hangover, mind racing, what excuse can I give now for not going to work/being late, what did I do last night, who did I text/email/phone, why is my husband not speaking to me, etc etc

AWFUL! And all self inflicted...and all can be erased as a potential future occurrence by just not picking up the first drink. Small price really.

Thanks for the reminder!!!

CAthy31
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na4today

I don't miss waking up to my husband in my face just waiting for my eyes to open so he could start the "what are you doing to yourself" speech.

Chy

Yup, yup, all of the above!

Lindsey

Know what else i don't miss?

Puking in the early hours.

Those bruises that came from nowhere.

And those blisters on my fingers from letting a cigarette burn too long.

As you all have said, I need to be reminded daily of these things I don't miss.

Hugs,

Lindsey

kckman

alcohol

1Marty

I also never want to forget what it was like. How low I had sink. Its truely a gift to be able to live sober today!

susan_17

Ashes I'm with you, I didn't think everyone did the stupid things that I do.... It makes me wonder why i even obsess and crave it the way that I do. Insanity!!!!!!!

exlibris

Great thread!

Understand and identify!

I don't miss losing friends because of my drinking.

Richard

CAPTAINZING2000

U know y I love newcomers? When, I do forget, I think I can try it again. Anyone new comes in the door and says their live our pure H#LL I figure, i don't want to go back out and see if they're right

keep coming back Lindsey




chris

Lizard

This is the best thing I've read today.

I don't miss that awful, stale taste of tonic in the morning. I don't miss puking all day long and not being able to get out of bed. I don't miss not knowing where all my money went. I don't miss not knowing who I'm waking up next to. I don't miss begging my friends to go out to the bar with me night after night after night.

3legacy

Agreed, only I would add that I do miss losing friends because of their drinking. Seems like more and more of them are those who once had "time" but had only hung out in fellowship. Guess I get good lessons there as well, when I'm willing to look a bit deeper than my sorrow.

Lindsey:
I don't miss the "NOT FEELING" anymore. Even when the feelings are those I used to drink to drowned, I'm grateful to have them today. I no longer have to

3 Legacy
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CAPTAINZING2000

Every person must decide the road he must travel. A friend was where he was supposed to be at a given time in your life. I do miss some of my drinking friends as well. I don't miss the rest of the insanity that sucked me down to the abyss.

What I would miss is, getting up everyday and thanking God I'm sober. I would miss the days of sunrise and sunsets i never saw b 4. The way the ice glitters when the sun hits upon the branches on a winters day. I'd miss the laughter from my mouth which, comes all the time now instead of I hate my self

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