Osher Günsberg Instagram – 14 years and one day ago in NYC was the last night I ever had a drink.
I couldn’t stop. Even though I’d tried many times. I didn’t know how to not do it, but I knew that I had to stop or I was going to end up financially ruined, divorced and dead.
So I asked someone who had what I wanted how they did it, and then just did what they told me.
Like they say, it’s a day at a time. Sometimes it’s one hour, or five minutes at a time. But slowly, in the words of @matthewmitcham88 – you build up a life in sobriety that you’re not willing to lose .
There’s no way this happened because of self-will or willpower.
That was the problem.
This is the result of humility being thrust upon me and knowing that my way of handling things wasn’t working, and that other people had better ideas that were healthier and less destructive.
Do I do it perfectly? No.
Am I still an untold punish to my wife?
More than I’d like to be (my account of this is probably different from hers – believe her version).
Even though sometimes it’s hard – the life, the family, the career I have now would have been impossible were I still drinking. It’s no exaggeration to say that if I was still drinking and using I’d be long gone.
So today I’m grateful for all the kind, smart and generous people who showed me how to do this, because you all gave me a life I could never have dreamed of. xx | Posted on 14/Mar/2024 14:37:32
