Sober October

When I made the decision to spend one year of my life following a set of rules to spend less money, I also wanted to immediately take the idea and push it even further. I want to take this year to be about consuming less – consuming less natural resources, less alcohol, less shitty food, less bad energy, and of course less money.

So on October 1st, I decided to give up my bad spending decisions for at least one year and also to give up alcohol for at least one month. Now, I’m not an alcoholic, so this challenge isn’t as difficult for me, however, I’m definitely a social drinker.

Already, in the first week of this month, there have been a few occasions where people around me have been enjoying a glass of wine or a cocktail and I’ve felt the inward pressure to join them. I haven’t, but I’ve felt it.

And that’s something I’m really trying to step away from. Because I don’t like that I feel the need to consume a substance that will alter my mental/physical state in order to feel comfortable in a social setting.

Many of the people I’ve relayed my Sober October plan to have laughed at me or asked me why I would choose to partake in such a thing – and I think that’s probably because we live in a small town where there aren’t a whole lot of extracurricular options that don’t involve alcoholic beverages.