Good morning, fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT, 😁!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same. Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!
I’ve sort of promised myself to at least finish the month without a drink and now it feels like I have something to prove to myself. Although I must say the health improvements are minor at best. Today I don’t have to work and I’ll spend all day at home alone. This would normally be the kind of day where I’d have had a couple of glasses before 3PM. Not because I wanted to spend my evenings in a daze, but because I’d probably be bored most of the time and drinking makes it tolerable.
So today, I will be committed to taking it easy, try to find stuff to do, maybe take a nap if I’m not feeling up to it. A self-care day without alcohol, I’ll be fine.
I didn’t see many of the much-vaunted health improvements, either, so I’m always cautious about saying that everything is going to be marvellous straight off the bat, because sometimes it isn’t.
My entirely unscientific thought process is that your body spends much of that first month going “wait, what?” and scrambling to get back to normality. You’ve spent however long bathing your system in a systemic poison and it takes a while for your body to adjust to that not happening any more, and it all takes time.
Sometimes not drinking also reveals that you were drinking for a reason - in my case it was self-medicating undiagnosed ADHD, and oh boy was that an interesting few months…
IWNDWYT
