Guilt Free Living Courtesy of Sobriety

I would rather have done nothing extraordinary yesterday than have done something which I regret goes without question. Regular alcohol use by someone who is conscious about their health or having control over their actions inevitably leads to repeated bouts of regret. Just how much does this effect out lives one might ask, while using, in addition to the financial, physical and other emotional detriments. Well its a lot!

You can start to think back and remember all the scars and physical inflictions attributed to being under the influence and those certainly seem stupid careless acts worth regret. Looking at your bank account always hurts. Lost opportunities, relationship and regrettable moments of being a shitty human are usually linked to regular alcohol abuse. Divorces, smashed cars and how about Cancer? Likely you won’t have much time to regret the onset of that as its to late.

There is a less obvious type of regret that sneaks in as you go through the cycles of change towards thriving in sobriety. That is the simple regret of ever drinking in itself. From that one sip to the full relapse bender, you start to become aware of the obvious, that putting an addictive poison in your body that impairs your judgement is a bad idea.

As you go through the first day to the hundredth through the thousandth day of alcohol avoidance, a common theme emerges. Even if nothing else was accomplished, you didn’t drink and that is fricken huge!!! Really when you compare it to the alternative of bad drinking outcomes right up to and including the worst way to die, just not drinking leaves a special peace in our being that we can and should be immensely grateful.

Combine this with avoiding spots of past temptation, creating great relationships, being creative, being patient, improving our health and exercising our full cognitive awareness to be super human beings and thank you very much sobriety for giving me an amazing guilt free life. That’s plenty for me thanks.