Sobriety and Self-Gratitude

Taking time to appreciate the decisions that we've made.

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I’ve been writing about sobriety since 2018. When you spend as much time writing on the internet as I have, you’re bound to get a few rude replies in the process.

I still remember one of those comments from a couple of years ago. I had mentioned in a blog post that I was grateful to myself for having quit drinking. In reply, a reader had said that if I was grateful to myself, then I had missed the point of gratitude.

The comment stuck with me and I wondered for quite a while whether he was right.