What Sobriety Feels Like

About This Video

Fifty seconds. Either this is the happiest I have ever been in my life, or I am having a nervous breakdown. Chopping through a door to save someone from heroin. Exploring an abandoned insane asylum. Motorcycling through Maine. Van describes sobriety not by arguing for it but by naming what it feels like from the inside. They call this the Big Book, and the title on the cover is nearly illegible so outsiders cannot tell what you are reading. He protects his sobriety with all his might. He understands it makes everything else possible.

Transcript

this spirited man has decided to make an episode about sobriety either this is the happiest I've ever been in my life

or I'm having a nervous breakdown it was like this at times chopping through a door to save someone from heroin

exploring an abandoned insane asylum or like this motorcycling through

Maine they call this the big book and there's a reason the title on the cover is nearly illegible it's so Outsiders

can't tell what you're reading the book is full of stories and suggestions and along with the people and the meetings it helped him stay sober and he's

grateful for his sobriety he protects it with all his might he understands that his sobriety makes all the other lovely things in his life possible

Books Mentioned

• title nearly illegible on cover so outsiders can't tell what you're reading (by — title nearly illegible on cover so outsiders can't tell what you're reading)