Last Drop Blog

As I am getting more comfortable with my sobriety, I figured it would be a good idea to identify the purpose behind the blog. I typically just open this up, write whatever is on my mind, and close down the laptop. Not too much thought goes into my writing and the posts are typically just me sharing my stories, thoughts, feelings. While I still will write about my personal experiences and how they impact me along my sobriety journey, I want to work to help others. I want there to be a little more purpose behind my posts going forward. I want someone to read one of my posts and have an action they can look to take, a book they can read, a thought they can implement etc.

I recently passed 5 months of sobriety and while I would still consider that early stages it is also a substantial amount of time. I still battle with my mental health and sobriety journey daily, I just feel as if I am starting to get more comfortable with who I am without substances. So now that it is the new year and people may be looking to better themselves, I figured I would make an honest attempt to be a voice in the sober community. When I was sober curious for the past few years, I struggled to find people online in their 20’s talk about sobriety. I gradually see an increase in the number of outspoken individuals and groups that discuss sobriety, but still not enough in my opinion. Specifically not enough males, just in my searching I typically see more females in their 20’s speaking about sobriety than males. I don’t want to narrow down a target audience, I simply want to bring some light into sobriety at a younger age as a male in todays culture.

In case you havent read my past blogs, my name is Will, I am 24 years old, I now live in Austin, TX and I have struggled with alcohol ever since I started drinking around the age of 16. After many years of my unhealthy relationship with drinking, I decided to get sober. It has now been 5 months since my last drink and it has hands down been the hardest 5 months of my life. However, it has also been the most rewarding and telling 5 months.

So if you are sober now, looking to explore sobriety, or even a drinker who wants to gain insight… I hope this blog can help in anyway. I am willing to be an open book, I actually even notice talking about my sobriety and life has helped me get through tough times, even if its through writing. If you want to know the whys behind my decisions, how choices have made me feel, what I have done in tough situations, where I am in life and where I want to be… you name it… I am willing to be as open as possible.

I will leave this post with a few things. Realizing I had a problem with drinking was not hard, accepting it was. It took me close to 8 years to accept that I had a problem with alcohol. Understanding why you have a problem/addiction is incredibly difficult and emotional. For me the understanding only came after choosing to get sober, I do not believe I ever would be able to determine why I am an alcoholic without removing alcohol from my life. I am still working to discover what led me to have a problem with alcohol and I am learning new things about myself constantly. I have not been able to get sober and stay sober alone and I have definitely not been the poster child for sobriety. I have certainly made things harder on myself than they needed to be these past 5 months and I hope I can help others make their sobriety process just a little bit easier.

Regardless of your choices in life I hope you all seek to embrace change and work to view change as an opportunity not a burden.