Indeed we are not. Water is life!
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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I need my weed but every day I don’t drink is really just great for me and society in general. Going on 8 years of making the world a better place! And I’ve drank rubbing alcohol before if that encourages anyone in a morbid way
oh wow. Gotta ask... what did it taste like???
like permanent marker ink
I’m not sure I’ve tasted that either!!
It was fucking bad, real bad. Like that rock bottomed me out real hard cos I realized I just poisoned myself once that taste and feeling came over me and that just woke me up on the spot. It was still some struggling but that was definitely the catalyst to recovery
I love it when unusual subs pop up in my all feed.
Just for you guys (and girls, and others), I'll join you in not drinking today. My liver could use a break anyway.
good meeting on step 2, came to believe power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity... I changed that last word to sobriety cause I felt like the sanity ship sank, but with the spirit healed the mind and body followed. in 31 days I've thought about drinking twice. completely new perspective.
I will not drink with you today!
I'm sorry, but the world is shit. My country is shit. There is no future to me, why it does matter?
because for me, my perception was warped to insanity, and my world and future improved immeasurably when I stopped for good. life really started improving. i seriously used to think, why take away the one thing that makes me feel good, truthfully I hadn't felt good in years, i was delusional. wasn't possible to see from the hole I'd dug. it's a disease, maybe not in the conventional sense but it is progressive and it will kill me. it talks to me and tells me I don't have it. cancer does not talk to you.
Fair, I'm suffering from a different kind of addiction myself, or more specifically withdrawal from it, and I drink to feel better.
does it work, do you feel better? I can relate I have multiple addictions, no hard drugs touch wood. but I'm happy to give you my whatsapp if you'd like to dive in and try untangle the mess, +61 459 506 563
From a purely practical standpoint, taking a break from drinking will lower your tolerances, allowing you to get the same level of effect with less liquid when you do pick it back up.
that said, there's more to it than financial efficiency.
I do sober september every year for the past 3 years, mostly so I can keep telling myself that I don't have a problem. Every time I realize that I just generally feel better after that, and I'd benefit from just quitting completely.
it matters because you matter.
Alcohol is a depressant that steals your joy, steals your confidence, steals your hope, steals your you. It robs you of the ability to plan beyond the next bottle, it poisons your mind and keeps you downtrodden, and all it gives you in return is a short-lived artificial high that gets shorter and shorter each time.