I’m not being funny… but it’s my birthday! Well, sort of. Seventeen years ago today I received a new lease of life. For anyone on the 10th day of Dry January finding it a challenge, well today is what we call my clean-time birthday, almost two decades of no drink or drugs and I’ve never felt better. Don’t see this month as a loss, just see it as a plus, don’t look at the cons, just look at the pros. Being sober is a key to happiness.
Back in 2007, I was going through the darkest time of my life. After 28 years of abusing drink and drugs, I had reached the point of no return. Or at least so I’d thought. Planning my own funeral was a weekly occurrence; I even knew what song I wanted playing at my funeral — No More Drama by Mary J Blige. Hell, I would change the guestlist every week depending on who I had and hadn’t argued with.
