6 Months Sober

Today I reached my first significant milestone, I have gone 6 months without an alcoholic drink 6 months ago today i sat on a beach on a wet night drinking a couple of long necks (700ml beer) asking myself what I was doing? I didn't want to be drinking those beers yet I still had them in hand and was still pouring them down my neck. Something changed in me that night, to this day I can not explain what it was, but something changed and since that day I have remained a different sober person.

I realised I had a problem with drinking about a year and half before that night, i had plenty of arguments with myself during this time trying to convince myself I did not have a drinking problem I was in denial and did not get real about wanting to actually stop until about a year before that faithful night on the beach in Queensland, That year was tough, and it's ironic i sit here 6 months from my last drink thinking and reminiscing about the time it took to get my mind in the right place to be able to put that drink down and not pick another up.

I guess even though my last drink was 6 months ago I had decided to stop drinking long before that and I need to keep in mind that although these milestones are great reminders of the progress made, and far I have come, the journey had started a long time prior to these 6 months, the struggle was there and the struggle for me at least was harder prior to putting the drink down I had to convince myself it was the right thing to do I had to convince myself I had to do it and I had to want to do it. It was only then, that I knew I was ready to put that drink down once and for all.

So as I sit here on the 22nd of August 2015 about to head to bed knowing I have 6 months of sobriety to be proud of, i am still very aware of the fight and the struggle I had long before these past 6 months even started. Each milestone for me will be a simple reminder, a reminder of where I was in my life, why I choose to take a different path in my life and why going back will never be an option.


Success built from failure,
The Alcoholic Entrepreneur

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