Saved by Sarah Wood
My Relationship With Drinking Ended As The World Shut Down
The mindset that told me that a life without alcohol would not be worth living, or that I wouldn’t be able to live it, was a category error brought about by a substance. The thing is, quitting has to come from something deeper than rationality. It has to come from a true exhaustion and an interest in what else there might be.
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
I liked the way the drink helped turn me into that kind of person, someone more hardened and rebellious and cynical than the person I was raised to be, someone who could scoff and tell stories and make other people laugh. It was something I’d been looking for all my life.
Caroline Knapp • Drinking: A Love Story
Getting sober meant accepting that all of these costs really had been for nothing. No big surprise debit from God was going to show up and balance the ledger. I would never get resolution, or closure; it would never feel okay.