Adventures – It's Better Alcohol Free

My heroes were
Travelers
Wanderers
Adventurers
Writers

And mostly drunks

Jack Kerouac
Hunter S Thompson
Kesey
Bukowski
Hemingway

It seemed that to be
Wacky
Weird
Adventuring with the flow
That you had to be

Drunk

Isn’t that the fantasy?
Wild and free
Ending up in a random Mexican bar
Seeing how far the night can go
But
That’s not quite the reality

Reality sets in the days after
When my compass
Spins round
My star
Dims down
My heart
Unheard
With no idea
Where I am
Anymore

It doesn’t have to take a poison
To be wild and free
I know who I am
I’m down for anything
I’ll dance until the sun comes up
Collapse laughing in your arms
But this time
My compass
My star
My heart
Doesn’t get so far lost

It's Better Alcohol Free

I said I was going to quit so many mornings but never did anything different. I felt like continuing to drink was going to kill me but I couldn't stop. I needed to change my brain. I decided I would change the way I thought about drinking by reading sober and alcohol free blogs every morning. By surrounding myself with different information, I completely changed the way I thought about and dealt with alcohol addiction. I learned how to change my habits, I learned how to think differently about self-care, and took a real look at how I treated myself. I started to see alcohol for the poison that it is. My personal reality changed by reading the stories of others. Now I share my own stories here to help others and to continue the healing.