Good morning, fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT, 😁!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same. Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!
IWNDWYT
I quit four years ago. Before I could bring myself to throw out my booze I would stomp around and yell at it like it was the fault of the liquid for being so yummy. For several years I had dreams in which I was enjoying a beer or a whiskey of some kind, then realized with horror that I was not supposed to be drinking and had ruined all my progress by being thoughtless, but then I would wake up and feel such a huge amount of relief sometimes I had to make sure it wasn’t a real shameful memory of some kind. Yesterday I broke an egg in my coat pocket while bringing it in from the coop and I joked to my wife that my coat was now just a couple ingredients short of a whiskey sour. Then I could not stop imagining the flavor of a whiskey sour with the feel of alcohol and feeling completely nauseated for a good ten minutes after.
Spent twenty years sucking it down but I broke free. Now I don’t care about the price of booze or my supply of it, I don’t get annoyed when I’m the only one with a beer at a party. No more over-doing it and being useless all afternoon. No more $25 stadium beers! No more bottles of ‘apple juice’. Vodka in a water bottle to enjoy the fair. All in the bin, all long gone. I wouldn’t even be thinking about it now if I hadn’t broken the egg and made that joke.
Thank you for sharing. Made me chuckle but recognized the dark edge to the humour. Still early days for me. I backed off completely because I had “graduated” in a matter of months from light, mostly social drinking to almost everyday “no one will notice if I grab another beer, shot, it’s just a ‘cola’ !really!” and waking up feeling sluggish. I’m figuring out other ways to deal with the state I am in (anxious, need to unwind). Slow but getting there.
