No Magical Rainbow Unicorn Land

I’m always a little suspicious of the “I quit drinkng and now my days are filled with joy and EVERYTHING IS FUCKING WONDERFUL!!!” stories. 

Yes, of course things generally go better when I’m not constantly shit-faced drunk. Like, duh. But it’s not like I went skipping off to magical-rainbow-unicorn land just because I quit booze. There are days that still suck & I’m sometimes still an asshole. (SOMETIMES...!? Shut up, all of you.) 

I’m just sayin there’s nothing to be gained by over-selling sobriety and pretending that everything gets suddenly blissful or that you get an instant personality transplant. It doesn’t, and you don’t, and that’s ok.