I found the goal page recently. I have questions about it. First I want to say thanks to everyone who posted there it helped me a lot reading your posts. I agree generally that setting goals and making them specific is important for many reasons. I am simply not sure what mine are.
I am so very happy to be sober today. I am happy to not be thinking about alcohol All The Time like I was.
I think I would like to quit for a time and then reevaluate if I want to abstain forever or not.
I am new to this and since I have never tried to quit b4 I do not know if I had a drink if it would set me off onto a path of drinking daily again or not.
I was never a drink till I am drunk drinker. I do not like the feeling of drinking too muchy at one time. I was the constant buzzed type of person.
I didn't drink to where my words were slurred or I had bad interactions with people, or anything like that. My biggest thing was I knew I was short changing myself, not living up to my potential being buzzed all the time.
So now I am contemplating the whole thing. Like when would I think it is ok to drink? and how much?
I am positive I should take a big break away from drinking to break that habitual thing I was doing but is that forever?
I dunno.
Maybe I should make a short term goal in the meantime?
What I do know for certain is this group has given me the umph I needed to say Not Today and that was 11 days ago!
I am feeling so much better (still have the cold/cough) but all in all a million times better!
I also wanted to say I think people who have struggled with alcohol are remarkable people in my opinion!
Thank you all once again.
Siobhan
