Gone Sober (for 2.5+ years⁠🌞)
Updated  by  nm  2025-October-20

I don’t normally write about personal things, mainly because I’m a privacy nut, but I want to let you all know that I’ve been sober for more than two and a half years.🎉🙌🎊💃  It’s been a hard couple1 years and I’ve often thought “I wish I could have a glass of wine,” but I’ve resisted and now feel like I’m over some kind of hump. And will hopefully stay this way for the rest of my life.

If we meet in real life, I don’t mind at all if you have a drink. Please don’t be judgmental if I have a low-⁠alcohol beer, low-⁠alcohol wine,2 or sweet that contains liqueur.3


2025-April-20 Update:  On old.reddit.com/r/popular/, I learned that as of 2025-April 20 Eminem has been sober for seventeen years. For me, this is the day I’ve been sober for two years and two months. It’s cool😎 that both Eminem and I quit on the 20th of a month. For an inspirational discussion about Eminem’s sobriety, see old.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1k3n7o4/eminem_is_17_years_sober_today/.

Here are some inspirational words from Eminem’s Lose Yourself.

lose yourself

“You better lose yourself in the music. The moment, you own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.”






Thanks to PeerTube for this embedded video. For more, see Infinite Ink’s Don’t Give Up💓 (featuring PeerTube videos).


Endnotes


  1. Actually a hard 5+ years. ↩︎

  2. I have not found a good no- or low-⁠alcohol wine. Everything I’ve tried is either bad or really bad.😞4 I have found some good no- and low-⁠alcohol beers.🍺 ↩︎

  3. For my two-⁠years-⁠sober soiree, I bought a box of chocolates and then discovered that some of the chocolates contain liqueur. I decided that – for me – they are in the same category as no- and low-⁠alcohol beer and wine, i.e., OK. I’m actually having a chocolate that contains “cream & almond liqueur” as I write this.🍫👌 ↩︎

  4. Please leave suggestions for good no- or low-⁠alcohol wines that are not sweet in the comments section below. ↩︎

Please share & discuss 📝 👎 👍 📯