Yes, at first the thought of not drinking scared me very much. For a long time, that was all that I had done and I couldn't see how I could not drink. But, it is over a year since I last had a drink and life feels really good. I have so many things to do now and lots of wonderful new friends that I have met through AA.
The initial compulsion to take a drink took a little while to leave me, but I rarely think of drinking now. Life is so much better than I thought it could be. It can be for you, too.
Take care,
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
I was absolutely terrified to stop. I didnt' know how to live without drinking........that is until I found AA and I'm learning from others who've come before me. I found out it's like anything else - fear of the unknown - never as bad as we imagine.
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
I can't say that I was "scared" but it was was like I was giving up what I THOUGHT was my best friend. Wow! Was I deceived! Getting sober was the best thing that has ever happened to me. To be honest, and I know I'm not alone here, I didn't make it on my first try...or my second...or third...But I believe I've really come top the point that alcohol is permanently in my past. It was not my friend at all. I believe that with persistence you will find the same Girry. It really is a wonderful life. Welcome and good fortune...Tim
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"We posess the eyes through which the universe gazes with wonder upon its own majesty."
I wasn't so much scared of stopping drinking as I was scared of starting up again. I was also scared of going to meetings so it took me two years to set foot in one after I took my last drink. As time went by, I became more scared that I wouldn't be accepted at AA because I wasn't drunk enough, and I was scared that they wouldn't accept me, and I was scared that I would have beleifs forced on me, but I was scared of what would happen if I didn't do something else..... I think that I was just plain SCARED of a lot of things! Now, as I heard it eloquently stated in a meeting awhile back, "only an idiot doesn't experience fear" but there is such thing as too much of anything. These days, I'm in no way fearless, but all the fears, I found, they were why I was drinking in the first place.
