Friends and Sobriety

LOL this makes me laugh because when you get sober you find out that you really only have a couple of friends aside from the many acquaintance's you have I.E party friends. These are friends or people that the only thing you have in common with are how much you can drink together or party together. Try hanging out with these people when you are both sober. I guarantee you it will be a very awkward time together. I have found that when you get sober you will try and do the same things that you have always done and try and do them without drinking, believe me this does not work. It is more torcher for you then it is fun. I understand how this feels because today I still do things that I know really I should not be doing, but i do enjoy every once in a while going out and dancing. If I am with the right person and someone that is very supportive to me then the night can be fun without a drink. I struggle all the time trying to keep old friends in my life no matter what they are still doing, whether it be drugs or alcohol. The more I try and do this the more I see that it is not helping me in my current situation and in time could put me back in harms way. I have real friends today. Let me tell the new person this, I used to be as bad as they come rippin and running until there was no rippin and running left, and i made sure to find more. I never thought that I could be happy in a world without alcohol, today i am happy and i have found bigger and better things to do. Shit I just bought my own truck hahahah I couldn't buy anything but fuckin alcohol before. Today I am a man that someone else could ask advice from and prolly benefit from it. AMAZING. My advice to you about two years ago would have been "FUCK IT" that was good advice in my mind. Today life shows up and sometimes I react wrong to the difficulties that I face but today I somehow work through them, and I do not need to drink to get through them. LOL if you really think about it, whenever I would drink because something was wrong hahaha i would sober up the next day and that fucking problem did not go away. LOL insanity isn't it. I challenge you my readers to try and not drink for a month. If nothing has changed, like they say in AA your misery will be refunded 10 fold. Love you all and try and make today a better day for yourself. Be good to yourself you deserve it. Jonny B