“On the day I speak, a week before Christmas, I quit drinking twenty-three days ago. I don’t feel lack and I’m proud of myself. It is as if I had been relieved of a weight. And since then, I’ve been asking myself a lot of questions, to the point of wondering if I’m not going to stop completely.
What’s the point ?
The most obvious thing is that I sleep much better. I go to bed, I no longer wake up at night, I wake up nine hours later and I am rested, in good shape. I have energy, I’m dynamic, I want to do stuff. I feel like I’m recovering my ability to concentrate too. I have a much calmer relationship with work, I put less things into it, I invest it less because I am able to do other things on the side. My professional frustrations are less.
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There, I passed the test of partying with friends, World Cup football matches in bars, billions of aperitifs and I didn’t crack. So I wonder what’s the point of drinking again if I don’t miss it. The only dimension that makes me hesitate is pleasure, good alcohol. That of very good wine around a very good dish. But for the moment, all the “pluses” prevail, I want to capitalize on this to be able to continue asking myself this question for a little longer.
When I talked about it around me, some may have asked me if I had a problem with alcohol. I
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