Hey Sober Guy/Girl — Your Sobriety is Inspiring!

There have been a multitude of occasions where I wish I could take the sober girl or guy at a party to one side and say one simple sentence to them; “Your sobriety is inspiring.”

The timing of this sentence would, of course, be significant. Perhaps if I told them this little nugget of advice at just the right moment, they wouldn’t go back on their promise to themselves. They wouldn’t fold on their “no-booze” challenge. They wouldn’t break their promise to someone else. And maybe they wouldn’t feel left out or fall prey to peer pressure and have that “just one.”

I have seen this happen before. In my groups, it’s universally accepted that “Jesse doesn’t drink” to the point where it is a non-event. But I am acutely aware that for others who have just started out on their sober journey or trying to cut back for some or other reason, it’s not so easily accepted. It’s not nearly quite as simple.

So if you are the girl or the guy at a party or a gathering that picked up that drink because you were the only one that wasn’t drinking or people put pressure on you, I want to tell you this:

Your Sobriety Is Inspiring.

In fact, it’s worthy of caps. YOUR SOBRIETY IS INSPIRING. No, wait, that still doesn’t do the message justice. Perhaps caps and italics (these are the “big…