This was initially something that I was supposed to write as I went along. Accounting my life of sobriety while the rest of the world around me gets on 'with being normal'. But all good intentions etc.....
See, it didn't really work out that way:
JANUARY.
Consisted of making the people who matter (and some of those who don't) aware of my intentions. Sobriety isn't just something you can do without so much as word to your mates. No. Rather than the "what's up is there something wrong?" questions, I needed to make it clear that booze was off my agenda until at least my birthday, that being the summer solstice, June 21, smack in the middle of the year. So simply I said that's me done until my birthday, no ulterior motives. I'm not an alcoholic. I just didn't want to be the person I had been for what seemed like a long time. More than anything I wanted to prove to myself I could feel different but still lead the same life.
My close circle of friends were easy. Well I say that. The one person who I thought would be most disappointed turned out to be the most positive. Helped by the fact he'd was 'off it' for a month. So that was a good start. Another was as supportive as I'd thought he'd be, 'you do what you want bruv' was what I heard and what I expected to hear. Another wasn't either supportive or disappointed, he just behaved like he'd lost my number out his phone and then on the odd occasion I did see him, it was all, 'you having a beer tonight?' 'Err, no, I'm not drinking anymore am I'. And so that continued. I thought this was going to be easy. it was only January.
FEBRUARY...
Thursday 31 July 2008
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