I was very afraid to change, much like you seem to be. I thought stopping alcohol would be
horrible, a huge insult to all the breweries out there; The anheuser Busch Co would knock on my
door and wonder why I wasn't drinking a case of their beer every day like I used to.

But it turned out that the really big deal about stopping completely was that my life was no
longer handcuffed to an addictive chemical. No longer did I have to worry that I need enough beer
to get by day after day. When I went to restaurants, no one there cared if I had a cocktail or a
diet soda. But I cared and my family did too, that my heart had not collapsed, my liver stopped
tearing itself apart. I felt better, healthy, there were a million things to do around the house
that I never noticed before. There were so many extra hours in the day because I didn't spend them
drunk anymore.

A life change isn't easy, we know that. A year after I stopped, alcohol rarely entered my mind.
Now, 14 years later, no drinking at all, my old life is just that. History.
Oran


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