Sobriety Offers Everything that Alcohol Promised?
When I was first trying to stop drinking I wrote this quote on a “sticky note” – Sobriety Offers Everything that Alcohol Promised – and tacked it to the wall next to my computer. I got the quote from a blog called Unpickled and I prayed that it was true. I knew I needed to stay sober but hated the idea of being sober. Drinking was a seemingly essential part of who I was.
I had decided to go sober because drinking was a part of me that had become an ugly addiction. The call to pour a glass of wine at the end of the day had turned into a Siren song. A Siren Song luring me to crash against the rocks. One glass led to one bottle which was never quite enough, so a second bottle was routinely opened.
When I was young, I often woke up hungover after a night of drinking with friends. Sometimes, I felt full of regret on those mornings. Usually, I was savoring great memories of connection with great people over great food. The last couple of years that I drank though, my drinking was a very different thing… I would wake up hungover after a killer drinking session just by myself. It was just me and my bottle. I was isolated and focused entirely on drinking to get drunk. Yet, I had no control over how dangerously drunk I became…
and I would wake up with no fond memories of anything
just an empty sense of doom….
When I was young, I drank because alcohol promised connection. Eventually, I drank because alcohol promised me comfort. Yet, it gave the opposite in the end. It left me cold, alone, and afraid. The relationship had become symbiotic, parasitic, dark, and empty.
I read a great quote once that described it perfectly
The man takes a drink
the drink takes a drink
The drink takes the man
The drink had taken me.
That blog I mentioned above, Unpickled, is written by a woman named Jean. She also hosts a podcast called The Bubble Hour. It starts with an intro that is a song written and performed by her. That song and her voice became the sound that helped me reclaim my sense of self. They helped me to turn away from the siren song, stop drinking, and finally break free.
And at five years sober I got to thank her on her show and share my story –
It is true!
Sobriety does offer everything that Alcohol Promised!
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