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Day 66–2020 So Far — Reflections in the form of a Journal Entry
OK — so, after getting back off the wagon and back on the booze on the 1st of Jan this year, I’ve got a fairly good feel for how addiction works for me.
I also feel like I have a better sense of the things that make me happy than I did a year ago.
Writing and publishing has been wonderful, and while I’m disappointed how I’ve lapsed so far from an article a day (this will be my 49th published article, on day 66 since I started, that’s 17 missed articles — mostly over the Christmas and News Years time — and a week plus of that I was camping without my laptop so I don’t really feel too bad about any of that), I’ve still definitely managed to develop a habit of writing, and that is wonderful.
I’ve got a lot of ideas for things to write about this year, and I feel like once I get in the flow I’ll get some great stuff coming out. Getting in the flow is largely going to simply be getting up at 4 or 5 am. Which I haven’t done in AGES, but was very much in the habit of doing towards the end of last year.
The first beer I had after a year of not drinking was simply wonderful — it made me feel happy and made life feel good and it made all my troubles fade away. Drinking is so great. That is why people do it.
