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Basements. Weak coffee. Admitting I was powerless over alcohol.
This is how I used to visualize sobriety.
Boring, miserable, sad.
Sobriety was the last stop at the train station before the train went off the tracks. It meant failure, deprivation, and disease.
I was wrong. So wrong.
Sobriety is the opposite of deprivation. It is liberation.
Sobriety means getting to live life organically. Genuine. In technicolor.
No dulled brain cells here. No numbed emotions. No chemically induced dopamine spikes and nosedives.
I see and feel it all. When it gets hard, it gets hard. But when it gets beautiful, I settle in for the ride of my life.
Our society portrays sobriety as miserable. But that’s BS — I see that now. It’s a convenient lie for a $1.5 trillion industry (globally, according to statistica.com). In the same way our society markets consumerism to us like our happiness is just a Kate Spade purse away, so do we tell ourselves drinking will make it better. More fun. Celebratory.
It’s bull. It’s superficial. It’s a 20 minute high followed by hours trying to chase the feeling. It’s horrible hangxiety the next day, then starting the cycle all over again.
Sobriety is freedom. It’s taking our power back. It’s living life on our terms, not under the influence of something chemically designed to negatively affect our mental and physical health. (Remember, it’s a depressant).
The best thing I could ever do for myself was trying to live life sober. It’s the most satisfying feeling you will ever feel, and even better? It’s free.
Just don’t spend all the money you save in sobriety on Amazon. That’s another dopamine nosedive just waiting to happen.
thank you....