Congrats on 1000 days. I’m at six months in the next week and never going back. While your list is all the things I strive to do, sobriety was the most important when it comes to achieving what you want in life. Great piece.
Life is full and rewarding when we choose hard things. People constantly selling the easy way are charlatans that are literally stealing your humanity.
Your sobriety was hard, but rewarding. Raising kids is hard, but life giving. On and on.
Congratulations on your sobriety! I have ten years coming up in November. One of the best decisions I ever made. As you mention, it helped me with my own demoralization, though the first few years were an adjustment.
I do think capitalism can be quite demoralizing, even though I agree with you about the deaths caused by socialism / communism. I think the whole communism / capitalism binary debate shows a lack of imagination on our part. We can imagine other economies entirely and other systems. What about social credit system such as explored in Robert A. Heinlein's novel For Us the Living? Or what about worker cooperatives? The Mondragon corporation is probably the best known example of a successful worker cooperative. That would fall in line with the Distributist thinking, another economic system. Gahndhi also came up with his own economic system used in some villages in India.
But yeah, you have the choice to be demolarized or not. I still go to work and do what I can to try and make ends meet, and stay out of debt. And instead of being completely demoralized by capitalism I explore these other options in my reading, and through writing and conversation, try get those ideas into circulation. That's my hot take on capitalism over communism anyway.
I think many people who have left their addictions behind come to these realizations. Count your days and celebrate them, you are winning!
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Every day sober is a victory. Congratulations on another important step.
Congrats. I quit drinking many years ago and never looked back.
And this video is classic. I have to say that I always admired the ambition and ruthlessness of the Soviets.
Congrats on 1000 days. I’m at six months in the next week and never going back. While your list is all the things I strive to do, sobriety was the most important when it comes to achieving what you want in life. Great piece.
Congratulations on your 1000 days Adam! This is definitely a post to bookmark and read often.
Congrats on the sobriety Adam! I’m coming up on year 10 in January, keep it going!
Life is full and rewarding when we choose hard things. People constantly selling the easy way are charlatans that are literally stealing your humanity.
Your sobriety was hard, but rewarding. Raising kids is hard, but life giving. On and on.
When in doubt, choose the harder of options.
Congrats, Adam. Here is to 10,000 more.
Congratulations on your sobriety! I have ten years coming up in November. One of the best decisions I ever made. As you mention, it helped me with my own demoralization, though the first few years were an adjustment.
I do think capitalism can be quite demoralizing, even though I agree with you about the deaths caused by socialism / communism. I think the whole communism / capitalism binary debate shows a lack of imagination on our part. We can imagine other economies entirely and other systems. What about social credit system such as explored in Robert A. Heinlein's novel For Us the Living? Or what about worker cooperatives? The Mondragon corporation is probably the best known example of a successful worker cooperative. That would fall in line with the Distributist thinking, another economic system. Gahndhi also came up with his own economic system used in some villages in India.
But yeah, you have the choice to be demolarized or not. I still go to work and do what I can to try and make ends meet, and stay out of debt. And instead of being completely demoralized by capitalism I explore these other options in my reading, and through writing and conversation, try get those ideas into circulation. That's my hot take on capitalism over communism anyway.
Great read
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