365 days- does it matter?
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Originally Posted by dustyfox 
It's only a number but it does feel good to say , a year since I took a drink.
Does it matter - should we count the days, mark off the years?
Those hours, days weeks and years matter. Each day matters, whether its Day 1 of your sobriety, Day 5, 17, or Day 53. Every day I have been sober; the hard days, the days where I thought I can't do it, or the days where I felt exhausted or angry or irritable or bored, days where I was tired, fed up, sad, tearful, raging, all of those days were sober days and all of those feelings were my real feelings not masked or altered by booze. Each day matters, each sober day is precious life !
Every day we are sober is a fantastic achievement, reclaiming our own life, every day we are sober we are further away from the old poison.
So it's a year since I drank, and I counted my days a lot, I looked forward to getting to this day, I thought it would be a magical marker that showed me I could do it. Well after over 3 decades of drinking it's almost a miracle. And here it is; 365.
Will I continue to count my days, yes because I now know for sure, for absolute certain that being sober changed things and I get the feeling the more days I am sober the more things will change. I am on board and here for the long haul.
I really hope anyone who has just started, or re-starting after a relapse, starts counting sober days, it is possible. It is.
Does it matter - should we count the days, mark off the years?
Those hours, days weeks and years matter. Each day matters, whether its Day 1 of your sobriety, Day 5, 17, or Day 53. Every day I have been sober; the hard days, the days where I thought I can't do it, or the days where I felt exhausted or angry or irritable or bored, days where I was tired, fed up, sad, tearful, raging, all of those days were sober days and all of those feelings were my real feelings not masked or altered by booze. Each day matters, each sober day is precious life !
Every day we are sober is a fantastic achievement, reclaiming our own life, every day we are sober we are further away from the old poison.
So it's a year since I drank, and I counted my days a lot, I looked forward to getting to this day, I thought it would be a magical marker that showed me I could do it. Well after over 3 decades of drinking it's almost a miracle. And here it is; 365.
Will I continue to count my days, yes because I now know for sure, for absolute certain that being sober changed things and I get the feeling the more days I am sober the more things will change. I am on board and here for the long haul.
I really hope anyone who has just started, or re-starting after a relapse, starts counting sober days, it is possible. It is.
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Thanks Stickyone and congratulations on your own journey and achievement, it sounds hard won and all the better and more reason to be proud, more grateful to yourself than ever; what a gift we have given ourselves, what a life changing battle we have fought and won. Like you I hang onto my sobriety like it is the most precious thing in the world, because it is , for us it is life, real life however painful it is real and belongs to us. I hope anyone who is on day one, or two, or any day at all and is struggling, finds, somewhere inside them, the knowledge that this, this struggle for sobriety, is the one that really is worth it and that in the end, it will not feel like a struggle it will feel like you can let go and be free.
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