Day 117: Stuff I didn't know

Stuff I didn’t know before I stopped drinking:
1. The hours between 4 and 6 am actually exist and are silent and beautiful
2. A bar is a room where you can have perfectly meaningful conversations if you’re not so damned laser focused on pouring alcohol into your head
3. Kids are polite and don’t generally tell you when you drink too much (if you don’t completely overdo it) but show their gratitude for you not doing it in the most subtle and loving ways
4. It’s not only marketing talk that abstaining from both alcohol AND nicotine simultaneously does wonders to your libido
5. For me it gets easier if I right now decide to never drink again. I can always change my mind tomorrow. For others the opposite might be true: to always keep it open to maybe drink in the future but instead never use that option.
6. That alcohol makes people dumb also applies to ME. Yes ME.
7. Being AF improves my ability to be present and study my own reactions before lashing out on others
8. Love and attraction gets way stronger without alcohol if I dare to let go
9. I can only drink so much kombucha before getting a gippy tummy
10. Removing alcohol forces me to deal with stuff. Some things are hard but they are balanced by the beautiful things I start to appreciate which have been right in front of my eyes.
Picture from lightning storm in Durban, South Africa in 2005.
Onwards and upwards, comrades!

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