I'm six months sober and still get urges to drink pretty strongly, fortunately now it's occassionally not every day. I too can't think about forever. I really try to stay focussed on the here and now. Mindfullness meditation has helped me a lot with that. Also I remember how awful my last few drinking episodes were and how I hurt myself, and how close to killing myself I came. I don't ever want to go back there.

Yeah, life isn't perfect for me now, I'm unemployed and struggling with job hunting and have a lot of money worries, but drinking would just make everything worse.

Keep staying sober, one day at a time.

--splitimage