I volunteer as a Crisis Counselor, love puzzles & board games, try to make delicious vegan version of animal dishes and spend 1 hour a day learning something new.
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I used to draw and paint in my teens and twenties, and am trying to pick those up again a few decades later (current focus is on watercolors).
Also, this week I have actually been reading a physical book – another activity I have been meaning to take up again for years.
I was sober for a while in my twenties, and I spent most of my time chasing women and lifting weights.
Here I am sober again in my mid-40s, but I’m married now, and I have back issues that prevent me from doing any sort of bodybuilding if I want to avoid a surgery down the road. It prevents me from running as well.
I’m a musician, but I certainly don’t want to perform music sober. I have such a strong association with performing music and drinking, that I just don’t like to play sober. Playing in bands also puts you in an environment where it’s very easy to relapse. I’m cool with just jamming out in my basement once in a while with family, and leaving it that.
I do stretch and exercise for my back, but I’ve just never been able to get into yoga or any of the any of the meditation stuff. My wife is all about it, but i can’t do it with a straight face. She eventually just kicks me out of her yoga studio and gets irritated with me. To each their own, but it’s just not my thing.
What are some fun active hobbies that you have taken up? I would love to join a pool league, but bars or billiards halls just seems like not a good place to be until I’m clean a bit longer.
It seems like every time I think of something that would be a fun hobby it either involves being in a place that I probably shouldn’t be or something that’s not going to be good for my back. It’s pretty frustrating.
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