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How I Overcame an Alcohol Addiction With a $50 Brown Journal.
I stopped listening to people telling me I had to live out the “College Experience.”
That’s Stupid. It was a form of coping for having an addiction.
After attempting to quit for almost a year, my life had significantly improved. But I seemed to hate myself more than ever for getting addicted in the first place.
And I just couldn’t quit.
I tried and failed religiously for months until I discovered a brown journal, which taught me everything I needed to know about getting over my past mistakes.
Is It Helping?
Why didn’t I quit while I could?
Why did I party and get drunk instead of working?
These two questions lived in my head rent-free until I built myself an alter ego.
Let’s call him John, and he was a recovered alcoholic.
John was the perfect man in my eyes, but his story told me that he wasn’t always this perfect. He taught me that the mistakes he made yesterday shaped him into the man he is today, a man whom I look up to.
I was reminded that the past didn’t define me, but the decisions I make right now do.
