I feel this one too, pal. Lotta friends gone before 35 from alcohol in a lot of ways, mostly getting hit by drunk drivers on their bikes, sometimes when they had been drinking too, couple more from fentanyl, couple close calls myself (if you’re going to get blackout drunk in the North, I recommend head to toe wool and Gore-Tex as a wardrobe, it makes sleeping in construction sites much more comfortable). I had to change my life a lot to clean up, I got sober while still living and working in the same place but I changed my social life completely, and the big changes really came when my partner and I up and moved back to where I’m from and she went to college, out of Brooklyn and to a nice small college town in Western Mass. Friends still visit and I go see them but it’s mostly starting from scratch and it’s been good for reshaping my social life away from alcohol and the places where it’s casually used without discussion or concern for others, basically the places you used to be able to find me! Life is weird but it’s much better, I miss everyone who’s gone and I hope the ones who aren’t are doing better, but ultimately you gotta take care of yourself first before you can do anything else in life.
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I have once or twice found comfort in the insulating properties of a soft snowbank.
Someone recently asked me if my life was easier or harder with not drinking. I said neither, but it is very different. But better yes 100% agree.
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Sorry for my tone. I was attempting humor.
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Mmm yes my German Shepherds growing up taught me that one, you just curl up in your divot and whisper “there’s snow place like home”
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If my beer doesn’t freeze from being hidden in a snowbank for later then neither will I.
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I am married to a friend of bill for over 41 years. The struggle is real. We still like each other.
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Tobacco too.
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