Counting sober days matters, but it's not the whole story. Someone can thrive after 30 days while another person stays miserable for years, still behaving like an asshole. Real recovery means more than just not drinking.
Most people in recovery have learned to measure their recovery by how many days abstinent they have. That's okay. That's one metric. I would argue it's not necessarily even the best metric. Mm-hmm. But I certainly know a lot of people who are doing better at 6 months of, uh, consecutive sobriety than people who are at 20 years. Mm-hmm. And I know people who are at 30 days who are doing really, really well, whereas there are other people who have been sober for a year and are miserable. A-holes who nobody wants to talk to, but they're sober. So they kind of use this badge of honor. And so I think we just, we just need to be a little smarter. I know we like simple answers, but sometimes the answer is just not that simple.
