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Greetings!

I am returning to this page a month into my current effort to stay sober and/or abstinent, or to abstain for alcohol all together. My idea of being sober “is just a few”. What a joke!
Absinence is not the most daunting challenge in the world, albeit extremely difficult for me to manage. So it is with many addictive affairs, whatever your poisons may be. I have a few. :-(
So far I have 6 weeks sober, which, like the last dry spell, have been very mind-blowing. It’s really amazing what i missed while I was checked out. Life is a trip even without the drugs and alcohol, for certain!
Anyway, hopefully everyone else is finding their own paths to Nirvana. Drop an update so I know where everyone else is…

i can olny control the Here and Now and i live in Every moment, every day, now is sublime, i am present in each Moment, today i will NOT drink and i will get things accomplished and be productive!!
Peace and Namaste
Here i go….........................................................
Nat….............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

It is so inspiring to see everyone post their inner most thoughts. I am still winning against the war of alcohol. Not everyday, but overall, YES! It it so crazy how my brain responds to that first drink. The neuro-synapses fire so fast and so rushing that I am captured with alcoholism. But what happens the next day is that I feel like shit. I am a functional alcoholic. I can manage my life and go to work. What happens when I stroke out? I know I would if I continue…....
We can beat this and have a better life. We are in control. The Choice is Ours. Carpe Diem is crap. Live for tomorrow.

Nat

been doing ok. its definitely a battle, but I am winning the war. I feel like i am rewinding a little in time. Stopped growing for awhile during those foggy, heavy drinking years. I have a boyfriend that doesn’t drink, so that helps me in my quest to stop abusing.I read all of your posts every week and think often about where we started…

Thanks for your entries, everyone. No one was seriously hurt, but I wans’t there to see the people who got hit. I want to quit forever. I am killing my body. This is the first day I can honestly say I am sober. I will work at keeping it that way….Sober
Thanks again.

Nat

Not my worst, but still feeling bad. My boyfriend, who doesn’t drink, totaled my new car. Only 2900 miles new. So that me an excuse to have a few, then a few more, and more etcetra…Now that my mind is clearing from the fog, all my problems are still here. Imagine that?

today i will not drink.

Nat

I love the feeling of not drinking for days. I am so productive at home and at work. I have more energy and am soooooo much happier.
Why do I slip back to my old ways? Today I will not drink and use exercise to feel better.

No matter what anyone does, this is the forum to share and find acceptance. Misery, you did the right thing and dont’ hate yourself for being a strong person. Zero, just get up and try again. I keep trying and trying, too.
Where are all the other people that are out there reading the posts. What are you guys doning? Big Saturday night means lotsa self-control. We need to support each other. I’ll check in later when I will want to go to the package store.

I had a slip, too. Alcohol is a very seductive drug. Luckily, I wasn’t up to my “old drinking habits”, so I got too tired to get into trouble and couldn’t keep the drinking up. Give me a few days and I could drink with the worst of ‘em.
Let’s begin again. Life is too short to waste of something that makes you feel like shit.
Today I will not drink.

Nat

It feels good not to wake up tired! Zero_Eight1 thank you so much for your entry. I can relate to your same issues. Life is better without alcohol!

It’s the nighttime that haunts me. Still when I wake up this morning, I wonder how I am going to make it through a whole day and not drink tonight. I was thinking of taking up cigarettes, stupid, huh? I just think, “what’s wrong with just one?” Hah, I know I can’t. I lost that privilege a long time ago. Make me sad.