Continuing to drink is like hitting the snooze button
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Continuing to drink is like hitting the snooze button
I hit the snooze button this morning at 5.42am. I have to be working by 6.00, so it was a foolish decision. Work was going to happen - like it or not - and by hitting snooze I was only going to make my morning more difficult, rushed, and painful! After finally getting up, I was rushing around the house, cursing myself for waiting so long to get moving. Why hadn't I just set the alarm earlier? My day would be off to a much better start if I'd have simply bit the bullet earlier that morning.
It got me thinking about quitting booze. Each time you say "I'll quit tomorrow" or "I should probably fix this...later", it's just like hitting the snooze button. But the consequences are much more severe. In my case, they were almost deadly. I hit the snooze button for YEARS, and in the process I became unemployed, lost relationships, and my health faltered greatly.
For those of you out there still hitting the snooze button, I urge you to WAKE UP. It's not easy to throw that warm, cozy, familiar blanket off your body and put your feet on the cold floor...but you've got to do it. Real life is out there waiting for you, and every time you hit snooze you are letting a wonderful opportunity pass you by.
Make today the day!
It got me thinking about quitting booze. Each time you say "I'll quit tomorrow" or "I should probably fix this...later", it's just like hitting the snooze button. But the consequences are much more severe. In my case, they were almost deadly. I hit the snooze button for YEARS, and in the process I became unemployed, lost relationships, and my health faltered greatly.
For those of you out there still hitting the snooze button, I urge you to WAKE UP. It's not easy to throw that warm, cozy, familiar blanket off your body and put your feet on the cold floor...but you've got to do it. Real life is out there waiting for you, and every time you hit snooze you are letting a wonderful opportunity pass you by.
Make today the day!
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You're so right, great analogy!
I found that in my sobriety the worst days were those when i didn't immediately get up at first alarm and extended the agony.
When i was drinking doesn't matter, every single day was the worst
I found that in my sobriety the worst days were those when i didn't immediately get up at first alarm and extended the agony.
When i was drinking doesn't matter, every single day was the worst
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Originally Posted by LBrain 
great perspective BigS.
Unfortunately for me, I didn't get a chance to hit snooze. My alarm never went off. Someone came in the room and flipped the bed over with me in it. I got up right away.
Unfortunately for me, I didn't get a chance to hit snooze. My alarm never went off. Someone came in the room and flipped the bed over with me in it. I got up right away.
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Originally Posted by bigsombrero
It's not easy to throw that warm, cozy, familiar blanket off your body and put your feet on the cold floor...but you've got to do it. Real life is out there waiting for you, and every time you hit snooze you are letting a wonderful opportunity pass you by.
Make today the day!
Make today the day!
And, the lost time continues to add up. It is truly like "hitting the snooze button".
Tomorrow always comes and then it goes... And THEN there is always a new tomorrow... which goes too...
I very much appreciate your post. It came at a very timely moment for me.
Thank-you.
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That is a good analogy. It was easy when sonething was happening I didn't like, or most of the time I just didn't want to be available, hit that snooze button. I'm glad I haven't felt the need to do that for a while.
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