Hello Sunday Morning | Adam

3 months of sobriety achieved!! (a few weeks ago…) PART 2
20/05/12 • 1 Comment

(This is part 2 of this Blog post as I had to spilt it in half to make it work on the site) This is something that I have thought about for a while now and I think I am ready to commit to it. After chatting to Chris Raine about how he first did his 12 months sober, and since then he has done at least 3 months each year and plans to continue doing so in the future, I think that that is something I want to do. So I will say it now, I am going to do another 3 months with Hello Sunday Morning next year, probably around the same time, February through May. I think that when I do it, I may have a better chance to achieve everything I set out to do because I won’t have the stress of Uni and an impending [...]

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. And I’ve been feeling really guilty about taking so long with it. You know, it’s funny, as soon as I wrote that last sentence I thought to myself, why should I care? It’s not like I did HSM for anyone else really. Electing to undertake 3 months of sobriety is in itself an act of self-improvement and yet I still feel like I haven’t lived up to other people’s expectations. And there lies the biggest problem with my HSM journey; my motivations were tarnished by outside influences. What I mean is, my attention during my three months was often focused on external factors in my life and consequently, I was often neglecting my own introspection in regards to my alcohol consumption. (by the way, the only reason why I am flexing my vocabulary is because I don’t know what exactly [...]

Almost there…
27/04/12 • 1 Comment

So with one week left in my HSM 3 months I find myself continuously trying to evaluate where I stand with drinking now. What do most people do when they finish? I know that some people continue their HSM and others (like Chris Rayne) don’t feel the need to have a drink as soon as they finish and instead wait for an opportunity to rise where it is appropriate. I also know that on my first day after I finish I am meeting a heap of my mates at the pub and I am gonna see what happens from there. Now, I guess the question that I keep coming back to is; should I feel guilty if I go out and get drunk on the first day that I can? Am I supposed to learn fom my experience and limit my drinking to low amounts or have I earned the [...]

Home Stretch
22/04/12 • 5 Comments

So in two weeks I will be celebrating achieving my 3 month HSM goal. In fact, at this time in two weeks, I will probably be having a celebratory drink. I guess the big question for myself is whether that drink will be 1 of 5 drinks or 1 of 15. I’ve already realized that I’m looking forward to a drink and that I’m definitely gonna share a few with mates who I haven’t seen much of in my HSM 3 months. I remember at the start of it all, when I was thinking about what I would do when I finished, and I was actually considering maybe signing up for another 3 months. I’ve seen other people do it here with HSM. They keep tacking on 3 months until all of a sudden they’ve spent a year without alcohol. I now realize that that path is not for me. [...]

The Party Drinking Spectrum (repost)
02/04/12 • 1 Comment

So I went to two parties yesterday. The first one was a mate’s birthday barefoot-bowls and drinks. The second was a 1920′s themed student film fundraiser. They couldn’t have been further apart on the spectrum of party-drinking and it was quite interesting the things I learnt about myself while attending these two parties sober. Before I go into the parties though, I should wrap up what I started in my last post. Don’t worry, the mood passed. I’ve been sick with the flu for the past couple of days, so I started off grumpy and have now had had lots of time to think about my HSM. I’m still thinking positive about my 3 months and there is no chance I’m not going to finish. I have however been around more drinking recently and it caused a burst of nostalgia that transformed into a brief moment of negativity. NO MORE! [...]