I’m now two months sober.
Once again, I’ve learned my expectations were all wrong.
I expected to be able to ignore cravings by the time two months arrived.
I figured they would still happen, but I assumed I’d be able to push them aside like a smelly, unappealing plate of food. Instead, they hang around like a pestering fly, hovering with a constant buzzing in my brain.
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a book about forming and keeping “good” habits. The author writes that there aren’t good or bad habits, only habits that lead to good or bad outcomes.