Thoughts from the hippie

I remember one of my first posts on this blog was about Hello Sunday Morning (HSM), where I decided to take 3 months 'off' from alcohol. It has been over a month since I completed that and today it really hit me just how much doing HSM has had a positive affect on me. Since doing HSM, especially the past three weekends I have had a fair bit to drink, and today I guess I just had more or less a realisation about my 'relationship' with alcohol and how I only want it to play a very small role in my life.

"Even though it has been over a month since I completed my HSM, today it really hit me just how much doing HSM affected me without me even really realising it until now.

For the past three weekends I’ve been going out drinking although it hasn’t been anything too huge…the first weekend was a friend’s 21^st on the Saturday night and pretty easy going Sunday sess, neither of which were anything too messy, the following weekend was another Sunday sess which was a bit more messy, than this weekend the Friday night was a little messy, followed by only two drinks at my dad’s birthday on the Saturday night. The past three weekends haven’t been anything crazy where I’ve been waking up to a nasty hangover or anything, but it’s still been a very non-motivating three weekends where although I’ve been happy in those moments, when I think back on it, if I didn’t drink as much or not at all, I would have definitely just had more motivation and made more out of my weekends like I did when I was doing my HSM. I think this has made me realise that weekend after weekend it’s truly just not for me anymore.   

A perfect example of my non-motivatedness (I know that’s not a real word, but now it kind of is) is what I look like right now,…it’s Sunday afternoon, earlier on it was so beautiful, and here I am, still lying on the couch when I know I should be getting stuff organised for uni or practicing some guitar or Spanish, just something productive like I was doing the majority of the time when I was going through my HSM.

For me, realising this hasn’t made me want to do another HSM right now, but I am glad it has woken me up again even though it’s been over a month since I did do my three month HSM.

So this is just a little thank you to HSM. When I went three months without alcohol, it did make a huge difference in my life more than I had originally realised, and even though right now I’m feeling lazy and like a fool, I am still a little happy that I do know that I’m not going to keep going weekend after weekend drinking just because I’m not doing a HSM right now. Thank you Hello Sunday Morning!"

Here is the Hello Sunday Morning website for anyone who is interested: http://hellosundaymorning.com.au/