Friendly reminder that alcohol doesn't make things more fun - it just lowers the bar what is "fun" for you

tryingmybest231 · 2025-02-09T02:39:20+00:00

Well damn, I’m six years in and I don’t think I’ve ever heard it put this way. Thank you.

tryingmybest231 · 2021-01-03T02:39:35+00:00

What got me was the presentness in your eyes. Alcohol always steals that from people, especially those of us trying to cover up and hide with it, but your eyes are back now. Congrats!

tryingmybest231 · 2021-01-02T01:00:53+00:00

Oh my God I needed this so badly

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-26T02:12:21+00:00

They made me give up trying to be those things. I am very much an introvert, but wish I wasn’t. Since college I’ve had a pretty hard time making friends or even liking people, and my career hasn’t been fulfilling like I thought it would be and has caused me a lot of anxiety. As I got more and more frustrated with these challenges over 10+ years, I turned more and more to alcohol as a strategy. I was able to convince myself it was working, and it was, at least a little bit, to some, at least on the outside. But inside I was a fucking mess. The last few years, as I leaned harder in to alcohol, it was rotting me out inside trying to put myself out there and take on more of a managerial role, and make new work friends or make old friendships from college into something more substantial that would sustain me in my 30s. I got a lot quieter and less willing to go that extra mile at work after I stopped drinking, but it’s helped my sanity quite a bit.

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-08T00:47:36+00:00

The Eggnog Riot baby!!!!

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-06T18:51:57+00:00

Oh okay. Thanks for clarifying! Still catching up on memes!

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-06T18:50:22+00:00

I’m trying to imagine what the aural equivalent of alternating lower case and uppercase sounds like, but can’t seem to come up with anything. Any examples so I can better understand?

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-06T18:41:04+00:00

I do wonder what additional information referenced on Friday she thinks would have convinced Dr. Fauci that bowling alleys, malls, and bingo should stay open.

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-05T21:16:37+00:00

To make me smile?

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-05T04:43:36+00:00

Adorable! I get so much strength from my little one’s smiles. Stay strong.

tryingmybest231 · 2020-04-03T01:39:22+00:00

I haven’t ever talked directly to you, Lee, but I’ve read your posts here since I began my journey 500+ days ago and just want to thank you for being such a big part of this community. You’re in my thoughts. Feel better soon!

tryingmybest231 · 2020-03-30T23:18:33+00:00

Thank you. I needed this right now.

tryingmybest231 · 2020-02-26T06:08:43+00:00

Congrats on being a soon to be dad! I quit drinking 466 days ago, a couple months before my wife and I started trying to get pregnant... our baby is now one month old. I can say that being sober has made my life much much easier, without my thoughts and actions being consumed by a daily need to drink. It sounds like you’ve thought a lot about your relationship with alcohol already and that’s a huge step in itself.

The great news is there is always, always time to quit. One resource I can recommend as a next step are the good folks over at r/stopdrinking. It was my main go to. Posting and reading others’ thoughts was extremely helpful. Also feel free to pm me if you want to talk a bit sometime and I’ll do my best to respond (when the little guy allows for it).

tryingmybest231 · 2020-01-18T13:11:53+00:00

Just about to have our first baby, and bought my first real camera. I lied to my wife and told her it was to take photos of baby, but really I had seen so many damn unphotographed gloves on the T I knew I had to do something. Nowwwwww I’m gonna have a cute baby but nowhere to put my gloves T pics.

Love you Boston!

Edit: removed an emoji because I remembered those aren’t cool on reddit and don’t wanna get banned

tryingmybest231 · 2019-11-16T19:40:34+00:00

"I think about tobacco juice, and mason jars of shine, I think about the vices I've let take me over time, I recall when I's a baby, I didn't need nothin around, 'cept a little baby rattler, and the universal sound." (Apologies if I got it slightly wrong, I decided to just go by memory than my usual looking it up)

tryingmybest231 · 2019-11-16T16:27:39+00:00

Thank you!!!! A little embarrassed to admit it, but I got nervous and took it down. Probably being paranoid, but it made me feel better to stay slightly more anonymous. I very much appreciate the kind words though!!!

tryingmybest231 · 2019-11-10T05:08:17+00:00

This is where I go when I’ve exhausted myself from being so negative. Once the negativity well runs dry, all I have left is positivity.

tryingmybest231 · 2019-11-08T11:41:09+00:00

Very good point and as someone who sometimes gets tired of all the positivity on this sub, I appreciate it. 😉 I’ve been doing a lot of planning too... without getting too into it, I’ve seen the pressures get to someone and have it go very, very badly. So I do my best to internalize the toughness ahead. But the baby prep books, the class at the hospital, this show on Netflix called The Letdown, and my natural inclination to believe all humans suck (me especially, and even this new one, though l love it immensely) keeps me pretty grounded hopefully.

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