Well, it’s Tuesday morning, and I feel great! Day 7 on my second attempt of going sober for the foreseeable and that weekend was, if I can say so myself, a breeze.
I think it makes it easier this time of year to kick the booze because it seems like most people at work, around us and what have you are attempting Dry January as well after over-indulging in the poison over the festive period. I mean, most of them don’t have a genuine drinking problem and won’t last the whole month, but still, it makes it easier.
Now, as you know, I don’t write and post updates here for any other reason apart from to look back on when I’m going to inevitably want a drink. I’m sat here on my throne and high-horse because I managed a whole weekend without a craving. But when I get to this weekend, next weekend and the hell/heaven of a sobriety lifestyle intensifies, I’ll need some motivation to not open a bottle. I’ll need a gentle, but fierce, reminder of what happens when I drink and that is why I document everything on here, online, so I can’t lose it.
But, I have decided to upload a few posts, mainly to make it neater, but also as added ammo to make a U-Turn on Saturday afternoon when I’m watching the TV and start visualising a nice double Bell’s on the rocks in my hand. *Drooling*. Right. Stop now. Sober lifestyle. I’m sorry for even mentioning it and I really don’t know how this blog post helps you because it’s just me, battling inner demons, and imagining my cravings as some sort of Oasis in the Desert at my desk. Writing it down and then uploading it. But anyway, thanks so much, I really appreciate your commitment to reading this drivel, as I see it, but yeah, thanks.
Anyway, moving on, the other categories of blog posts I’m going to start uploading will be stories of Sober Celebrities and the success they achieved after they quit. I feel like when we get cravings it’d be inspiring to read exactly what they achieved. I mean, everyone has dreams don’t they? I know I do, and I think that alcohol, as with all of us, is the hurdle between us and our dreams and everything we want to achieve. I’m also, and this is mainly for my benefit but if you find it helpful then please tune in as it were. I’m going to start a thread called ‘Reasons to not Drink #1/2/3 etc’. I just think it’ll be a nice, gentle but firm reminder when the devil is on our shoulder and encouraging us to drink!
I’ve tried to make this entry less about how I’m feeling because I know a lot of you have told me that you like it when I moan about how I’m feeling and you find it relatable but I can’t allow myself to just moan and groan about everything. I hate negativity and I feel like I’m being draining and exhausting the words I write with shear pessimism.
So, on a brighter note! Some more exciting, inspiring content coming to the blog in the next few weeks and I’m going to try and create some sort of hub where us recovering piss-cans can go onto when we’re finding the cravings too hard to beat and, hopefully, find some motivation, encouragement and reassurance that not drinking is the way forward!
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