Sobriety Pays! Portfolio Full Year Update
I’m not only not losing this money anymore, but my vice money is actually paying me!
I’m not only not losing this money anymore, but my vice money is actually paying me!
I’ve been questioning the increasingly slippery slope of my use disorder and considering a path toward sobriety for years now.
A few weeks into my sobriety journey, I noticed I was starting to save money and a lot more than I expected.
As I look at a Sober September, that voice is already hinting at what we will drink to celebrate sobriety on the first day of October. Talk about a powerful paradox!
I’ve written about this whole sugar and ‘addiction transfer’ problem previously. For the past several weeks, it’s been a pretty big crutch for me. As I’ve mentioned in prior posts, I never considered sugar swapping to be a long term solution.
As I hugged those bears, that very hug and the rush of all the loving memories of The 500 Acre Wood were a stark reminder of the hollowness of alcohol. Neither alcohol nor weed nor any other mind altering externality can reconnect me with some idealized past.
While Monkey Mind may still be giving me a run for my money, my old pal Drinkie has continued his slide into silence.
“There is neither heaven nor earth,
Only snow,
Falling incessantly”
-Hashin
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