Shit! I just found out I’d been at this exact point before, and I didn’t even remember it when I posted about my “first” Friday yesterday.
This post was also from me, 1 year ago on a different account:
https://lemmy.world/post/28390234
And also this one where I wondered how to navigate an upcoming work outing at a beer festival:
https://lemmy.world/post/28433594
I went to that festival, and I drank. Just “one last exception”, cause I didn’t want to make my sobriety official in front of my colleagues yet.
And that was that. Another year down the drain.
It’s only “down the drain” if you don’t learn from what caused you to stumble. Sobriety is a lifelong journey. From those posts to today you wandered a bit, but now appear to be back on the path to sobriety.