Into The Distance
The greatest gift of sobriety is recovering the person I was meant to be and getting to spend time with him.
My active drinking career highlighted a lot of things I didn’t know how to do:
- Be honest with myself.
- Understand my own motivations and needs.
- See my proper place in the world.
- Appreciate my own quirks.
- Believe that I’m enough for the world, as-is.
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I’ve had moments where I felt strong, like lightning in my bones—like when I testified against my abusive ex and saw him go to jail. When I was running drills in fire school, sweaty and focused and too stubborn to quit. Even when it didn’t end the way I wanted, I knew I was becoming something.
Now, I’m in the in-between. I live with my parents again
... See moreOf course the thing about beginning again — about starting over midway through is that you have to be willing to watch yourself die.
I learned that from writing this newsletter.
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I learned that from writing this newsletter.
Next week, it will be three years since I launched The Cereal Aisle, and I think the most important thing I have learned in the time since is that rebirth is on the other sid... See more
If I was going to be completely sober for the rest of my life, if I couldn’t even have one drink at the end of a long and brittle day, then the life I lived needed to be a life from which I did not seek escape.