When I first got sober it was in late May of 2006. I immediately found some meetings to go to and when a person goes to meetings, they find out about picnics. My first thought was, “How the hell does a person go to a picnic and not drink?”
Turns out, there are a lot of ways to have fun that do not involve drinking or drugs. Here are some of the ways I have had tons of fun all while being sober:
- going to a meeting
- walking in the woods
- walking on a main strip in a small town
- going for a long drive (like… really long)
- drawing
- writing
- listening to music
- shooting pool at a pool hall (not a bar!)
- cooking
- exercising
- making a craft
- cleaning
- napping
- going to a book store
- going to the library
- going down to the river
- antique shopping (or browsing)
- going to lunch with a friend
- going to lunch alone
- starting a scrap-book
- journaling (I wish I would have documented my first year of sobriety)
- and yes…. sober picnics!
These are just a few of the things that I had (and still have) a ton of fun doing while trekking through sobriety. Do you have any to add? Please share!
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