I never noticed how everywhere drinking was until I stopped doing it. I’ve heard other friends share this sentiment unrelated to long-term sobriety. When trying a Dry January or a Sober October, for example, people will often comment on how many times in a short thirty-one-day period they had to say no to alcohol in order to abstain (to which I kind of want to say. . . yeah, no shit). Drinking, plans for drinking, casual references to drinking, jokes about drinking, memes about drinking, advertisements for drinking were everywhere — are everywhere. We live in a culture that drinks by default,
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