19 mos
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19 mos
Last month I forgot to post my 18 months until later. This time I'm celebrating two days early. So here goes. This coming Friday I will celebrate 19 months without drink. My life is so much better in a lot of ways. I do still have all my previous trials and tribulations but I can face just about everything in a much better light. It's like even the most mundane tasks are much more appealing. I don't want to sound like everything is solved and that everything is hunky dory. It is however a lot easier to deal with life on life's own terms and not while under the influence. So if you think about drinking tonight or can't fathom making it another day, please stop and think what that drink is going to do for you. It will never solve your problems or make you a happier person. In fact alcohol is a depressant and it just causes anxiety when the initial happiness fades. Stay strong and make a decision to not drink anymore. Accept the fact that you can't drink and don't want to drink because it doesn't do anything for you anymore. Before you know it you will pity the ones who always have to have a drink or have to waste their life in a bar.
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That's sensational, congratulations Tnman. I feel your point about 'wasting your life in a bar' so much. Countless times I've sat at a bar or cafe, tipsy or just flat out drunk and trying to hide it. Often it would be during the day and I'd watch people walk about busy with their daily lives, and get sad and remorseful whenever I heard their laughter. It's stories like yours that give me hope that I can do it too.
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