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Month sober, feels refreshing

#43
MetalSearGolid said:
To be honest, it's affected me negatively too. I'm in a great mood and I have my mental clarity (which is huge to me, I always thought my spotty mind was due to a drug binge I went on a few years ago, it's nice to know I'm fully coming back from all of that). But I am also physically tired where I haven't been before, it's hard keeping up on my house maintenance and I think the lack of alcohol is definitely playing a factor. When I used to clean, I'd pound beer after beer while cleaning to keep me in a good mood. Come to think of it, I used alcohol to enhance a lot of my good times, and make things I didn't want to do seem better.

**** -- maybe I was an alcoholic and didn't realize it
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For the record, I'm not a heavy drinker or drug user. I am just a social drinker that hasn't had a beer in a month or two. What I said was supposed to be a silly joke.
 
#44
bassgod0dmw said:
I guess "a month sober" means different things to different people?
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As I was writing, I forgot I had smoked after a couple stressful days in court. Counting that then, its still been 25 days since I smoked. Not quite a month then I suppose but close to it. Alcohol will be thirty days tomorrow though. I think I'm gonna keep this up for a bit and see how long I can go, for ***** and gigs.
 
#45
MetalSearGolid said:
As I was writing, I forgot I had smoked after a couple stressful days in court. Counting that then, its still been 25 days since I smoked. Not quite a month then I suppose but close to it. Alcohol will be thirty days tomorrow though. I think I'm gonna keep this up for a bit and see how long I can go, for ***** and gigs.
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I don't worry to much about the actual count of days. Still 30 days is awesome but for me the quality of my life is more important.
 
#46
slobake said:
I don't worry to much about the actual count of days. Still 30 days is awesome but for me the quality of my life is more important.
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+1

I definitely think it's more important to focus on the end goal and what you'll be getting out of this rather than how long you've gone since you've last drank or smoked. I would think it'd help keep those things a bit more out of your mind.
 
#47
jmattbassplaya said:
+1

I definitely think it's more important to focus on the end goal and what you'll be getting out of this rather than how long you've gone since you've last drank or smoked. I would think it'd help keep those things a bit more out of your mind.
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I wasn't going for sobriety or anything, just haven't been able to afford it much this summer. I really don't want to completely cut weed out of my life, but after initially posting this yesterday, I've been thinking at how many issues alcohol has caused in my life (mostly poor decisions made while intoxicated). I think I'm enjoying myself more without drinking, and I'm starting to live up to my full potential, so why start again?
 
#48
gregmon79 said:
Yeah, try swallowing a mouth full of ash and piss beer while you're playing and your stomach is twisting about to blow it all out. Yeah.
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Good times, right???
:D
I'm closing in on 90 days. Wish I hadn't waited until I was nearly fifty. I think my life would have been better if I'd stopped a coupe of decades ago (I tried but it didn't stick).
Sober bassist club, anyone?:thumbup:
 
#49
dmusic148 said:
Good times, right???
:D
I'm closing in on 90 days. Wish I hadn't waited until I was nearly fifty. I think my life would have been better if I'd stopped a coupe of decades ago (I tried but it didn't stick).
Sober bassist club, anyone?:thumbup:
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Cool idea!

I waited until 37. Not quite 51, but I have the same regrets. I try to shake them but sometimes it's hard. I think, "Oh, What could have been." Instead, I'm doing it now, right now, because today is the best day get moving.
 
#50
slobake said:
What I don't get is sippers. Someone who has a beer and takes a little sip here and there an keeps setting it down. I never understood that. I want to yell at them "WILL YOU JUST DRINK THAT! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?" :p
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Alcoholic minds think alike!! :hyper:

I just said that to the wife the other night when she left an unfinished margarita. I just kept thinking about all those times I would finish everyone's drinks. I've got 2 years this go around. Almost 14 years the first go around. Me an my child in a wrecked truck in a ditch and jail started the ball rolling for some serious changes again.

That said, to the OP, not preaching but please be careful with any substances due to the fact that you had an issue with pills. I'm the master at cross addictions. When I sobered up the first time, I held on to the cigarettes. Then started binge eating and gained about 75 pounds.

For some of us, it's like the pump is already primed for such things. It's like we are hungry ghosts, always craving something but never able to satisfy what that craving is really for.
 
#51
dmusic148 said:
Good times, right???
:D
I'm closing in on 90 days. Wish I hadn't waited until I was nearly fifty. I think my life would have been better if I'd stopped a coupe of decades ago (I tried but it didn't stick).
Sober bassist club, anyone?:thumbup:
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I totally dig the idea of a sober bassist club! It's sort of been done before though and it never seems to take. I even started a thread for sober bassist a couple months back but there were like 20 posts then it went nowhere. It would be nice if we could keep one going though.
 
#52
MetalSearGolid said:
I wasn't going for sobriety or anything, just haven't been able to afford it much this summer. I really don't want to completely cut weed out of my life, but after initially posting this yesterday, I've been thinking at how many issues alcohol has caused in my life (mostly poor decisions made while intoxicated). I think I'm enjoying myself more without drinking, and I'm starting to live up to my full potential, so why start again?
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I gotcha. I think the logic still holds true even then, though. When I turned 21 I definitely took full advantage of my new found freedom, and, while I never took it to any real extreme, I did notice that certain aspects of my life began to suffer to various extents. I don't drink much anymore and as a result I've noticed myself finding a lot more clarity in my life (as well as energy, thoughtfulness, and $$$ in my pocket :p).
 
#55
I haven't been drunk in 18 years or so. No i wasnt a alcoholic, i got drunk about 30 times in my teens over a two year period. I stopped before it was even legal for me to drink. I realised, hey, i really hate this feeling. I was a sad drunk too so it's not like it did anything for my social life. And i had the worst hangovers, horrible nausea. Big headaches. I couldn't see how any of this was worth it. Especially once you factor in the money spent. So i just stopped doing it.

And I've been stoned never.
 

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