The pain and beauty of being a regular, sober, human person
One of the first things I remarked on when getting sober was how unbelievably simple everything was: getting up to go to work on time, keeping my home relatively clean and tidy, and making my paycheque last the full two weeks until my next one came in. It felt, at first, like I was suddenly living life on easy mode. I guess I was just realizing, in retrospect, how hopelessly, unnecessarily hard my drinking had been making everything. For that first few months — the honeymoon period — the contrast was a…
