I’m happy to report I’ve had 0 drinks since my last drink on March 26, 2024.
August 16, 2024 is rapidly approaching, a date that is significant because it is one year after I decided to quit drinking for one year on August 16, 2023.
Good one lol, because as I recall, you haven’t exactly been “sober”
That’s true, as previously chronicled, during my “sobriety” I in fact have had 30.5 drinks. (The year’s still not over so I’ve still got time to run those numbers up!)
While opportunistically I’ve had informal, but important conversations with a handful of you about:
My plan for a plan to begin drinking again after one year
Whether or not this past year in fact constitutes sobriety, which if not would render point (1.) moot for the time being
— neither of the above has been resolved.
Get to the point!
My promise is and remains to not drink until such time that 100% of you have approved a plan for me to try drinking again.
Corollaries
Until you have all approved of me drinking again, which may be never, I will not drink.
By napkin math, you will hear from me minimum 3–Infinity months before a target date to begin drinking:
1 month to work with my doctor and my therapist to create a draft proposal.
2–Infinity months to submit my proposal to each of you to incorporate your feedback and make revisions toward the goal of convincing you to sign off on said plan.
Constraints
I’ve decided that my first plan that I submit for your approval will be time-bound to a probationary period of three months, after which I would revert to no drinking until a subsequent (possibly time-bound again) proposal is approved.
In conclusion: I will continue to not drink, and by the time I decide to begin seeking your approval to drink again, you will find out well in advance.
As those of you I’m not ghosting (I’m genuinely sorry that I suck, I really want to talk to each and every one of you who I love and miss, but I’m trying to take care of myself and even just reconnect with my family first) have been doing, please continue to give me your feedback offline.