There was a great scene in The West Wing, where Leo, the (recovering alcoholic) Chief of Staff, when asked if he never wants a drink again, said: “I don’t want “a drink”, I want loads of them.”*
I knew this from the first day I got sober. I never entertained the thought, and I think I spared myself a lot of hassle that way.
* I remembered it half right
. The full quote:
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I'm an alcoholic. I don't have one drink. [pauses] I don't understand people who have one drink. I don't understand people who leave half a glass of wine on the table. I don't understand people who say they've had enough. How can you have enough of feeling like this? How can you not want to feel like this longer? [pauses, sighs] My brain works differently.
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