I'm an asshole

I never graduated highschool or learned how to drive, partly because of dyslexia and partly because I was too busy drinking. I was never a mean drunk but I still went on to lose many jobs and relationships in my early 20s because of alcohol. Yeah, it seriously sucks and I sometimes feel like a complete embarrassment and failure in life, it's very painful. But now at 25 I'm working on getting my ged and december was my first month sober in over a year, I probably still have another 60 years left to create the kind of life I really want to be living, so I'm optimistic about the future. All of my best experiences in life were during sobriety, so I know even if I don't end up achieving the things I want to as long as I continue on this path I'll end up living a much better life than I was while drinking. Having been a drinker and seeing how bad life can get was really a blessing in that way, I now have much more appreciation for the simple things in life that most take for granted. When I'm sober I don't treat myself like crap because my life isn't perfect, because I know how much worse things could be.

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