Thats great to hear Camiol. What we got to watch for is the queer mental twist we all have developed that may trick us into picking the 1st drink after few days of abstinence. The mind starts deliberating if at all we have worried too much about this situation, do we really have a problem with alcohol, one drink wont hurt. This is the blind spot the book called AA points to:
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The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
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If we honestly look back at our past, after each brief period of abstinence, we would just done this, picked up a drink without even thinking about the consequences. This is the powerlessness the program of AA talks about.
