Good morning, fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT 😁!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.
Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!
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.