Quitting Is Not an Option

12.27.24

One of the first sober truths you are told in rehab and AA is to take a good look around at your peers because in three months only half of them will still be coming to these rooms with you. In a year, you’ll be lucky to see only a few. The really fucked up sober truth is that this is only if you are still coming to these rooms.

I tell myself every day, some days I tell myself multiple times, that quitting is not an option. The irony of quitting on quitting is not lost on me. Instead of looking at it as quitting I choose to look at it as a trade. I’m trading something that used to be recreational and fun but then turned into a miserable need and addiction for a solid foundation leading to a healthier, mind, body, and soul.

I’m here in these rooms of sobriety to stay! If you are in my tribe, you know that I am determined, persistent, and selfish. I need all of you and won’t let quitting be an option for you either. I will unleash the crazy, I will stalk you, I will never give up on you, because I love you.