Sober

 One blessing, among many, for being sober is that you have a future.  You did not die from addictive behavior.  Addiction has its own timeline and wants you dead.  It knows how long it will take if you cooperate and live in your addiction.  At first, it will make you happy enough to chase the addiction.  You will feel in control since you don’t do it every day.  Gradually, all that changes and you are a daily mess.  Then you die.  OOPS!  Everyone else, not your addictive buddies, saw it coming.  Addiction not only changes the present, it shortens the future that God, a Higher Power had for you.  I am thankful today, for today.  It could have been different, being no today.