To me, not drinking has been somewhat easy in comparison to “Life once we put the bottle down”. There’s an old saying in Alcoholics Anonymous “Staying sober is a lot easier than getting sober”. I guess that depends on your definition of sober. I stay sober by following the suggestions of Alcoholics Anonymous, aptly titled “The maintenance of our spiritual condition”. I look at it like this: I heard something once and it made a lot of sense to me in my own recovery. While watching one of the mixed martial arts large tournaments one year I heard a commentator make this statement: If you’re training training regime leading up to a hes been up to a tournament hes done right, it will be harder, much harder than the fight itself -as it should be! By the time you get into the ring, you will be so… (I just can’t think of that term or phrase)… old-age 🤪

That’s what we mean when we say “Not drinking is not so much a choice as a byiproduct of….”