“Forever syndrome” is what kept me drinking during my attempts to quit. That whole “I have to do this for the rest of my life” thinking had me drinking again before I gave recovery a real chance. What I realized today is that I couldn’t reasonably and realistically envision my life without alcohol because I hadn’t yet adopted the tools of the 12 steps. So, the “rest of my life” I imagined wasn’t real. It was a version shaped by emotional pain and the absence of my only coping tool.
Emotional sobriety is the product of the steps that makes “the rest of our lives” both manageable and beautifully fantastical! It quiets the self-absorbed noise in my head so I can actually hear the world again. I don’t need to figure out what forever will look like, and honestly, I can’t. I just try to keep my mind where my feet are because that’s where joy lives.
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