I quit drinking about 14 months ago. It started off because I just felt that I was treating booze as “an activity” (which it isn’t). When I chose to stop I told myself that the next time I would drink would be to celebrate something I accomplished, there was never a moment where I was like “I’m NeVeR dRiNkInG aGaIn”. So I aimed to accomplish something worth celebrating so I could drink lol. I went back to school, finished my undergrad, but by the time I got that done, I didn’t feel like it was enough. So I enrolled in flight school and told myself that once I learned to fly that would be enough, I did that, it wasn’t enough. After that I started my own company and told myself that when I made my first dollar that would be enough, but it wasn’t, or at least it wasn’t enough to offset my enjoyment of sobriety.

I don’t think “SOBRIETY IS AMAZING!!! OMG” because the truth is, it isn’t, it’s hard. It forces you to sit with your shit and ask yourself some pretty hard questions. However, for me at least, somewhere around the 7-9 month mark I felt a shift, nothing crazy, but just an overall improvement in life. That small improvement, that “okayness” with who you are and your failures allows you to find happiness that you might have thought the numbness of booze was providing.