1963comet

When I first quit drinking I felt the same way. I thought my life would be pretty dull. But my life is not dull. I am interested in so much more now. When I was drinking all I thought about was drinking.

I have told my brother if he would only give sobrity a try he might like it. I did.

CarolD

Hi Karen .Congratulations on the start of you new life.

I too was scared to crawl out of my alcoholic lifestyle.
All my friends drank excessively ..heck! I even worked with alcohol.
How was I to manage my sobriety?...

With God and AA I have thrived! So can you!
Welcome to SR...

Missymae737

Hi Karen,

Welcome to SR...

:comfort

ccirider

Hi Karen:

Your comment here brought up a lot of thoughts in my head. Adddicts not only waste a lot of money to support their habit, they also waste a lot of time. How many hours do porn addicts waste surfing the net? How many hours do drug addicts and alcoholics waste because they are too incapacitated to do anything productive for themselves or others? When we rid our lives of addictions, we rid ourselves of this tremendous waste. Moreover, how can people be grateful for what they have in life while at the same time they are wasting valuable resources? Do not wastefulness and ingratitude go together?

Anyway, those are some of my thoughts that flowed out of me as a result of your comment, so I thank you very much for your comment. By eliminating this waste in our lives, we are actually enriching our lives because the money and time that we would have been spending on our addictions is now going somewhere else. The wastefulness of addiction impoverishes us and just by eliminating this wastefulness we enrich our lives. We can then turn our attention on enriching our lives in other ways now that we have fixed this big hole in our bucket.

I could probably write a whole chapter in a book about this point. Isn't the recovery process all about enriching our impoverished lives as addicts? Isn't it hard to be happy when you are miserably poor? Thanks again Karen for sending me off on this tangent.

Debaucher

Welcome! I remember feeling so upset and sad and shameful. It was totally overwhelming. There was nothing specific bothering me but everything was just too much... I cried alot... I talked... I went to meetings. I came to this forum.

Over time the good days started out numbering the bad ones. Today I am very happy. I always believed that despite my current state of mind I would be happy one day... I just didn't know how but I trusted other folks to help me find my way.

thank you for your post and I look forward reading more of your posts.