Things That Are Fun (While Sober)!

Picnic (Photo credit: Carlos López Molina)

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!

Related articles

• Three Months Sober, Feeling Hopeful (sobermommies.com)
• The darkest hour is just before dawn (myjekyllandhyde.wordpress.com)