The Clear Horizon

From oblivion of alcoholism into the light of sobriety

  • Procrastinating through college – or: Who needs a Future anyways?

    After I finished my Abitur (Giving you the permission to study at a university) I did my substitute service instead of military service (which, no doubt, included as much drinking as having been a soldier would have). This is a fuzzy era, I only know that I hated this time and took every opportunity to… Read more

  • A promising Drinking Career

    When I was about 16, there was a pub in the city I lived in, where you could get drinks so cheap even a teenager with his pocket money could get hammered that one day in the week without getting broke. The pub was called Eulenspiegel and you could get either half a liter of… Read more

  • How it Began…

    I think it makes sense to work on three levels here: Firstly, there will be postings about my “drinking career” and secondly my “sobriety career” and then postings about aspects, situations, methods and thoughts that help me to get on in my sobriety career and to share worries, happy thoughts, daily snippets and stuff. Let’s… Read more

  • Clarity and understandibility of my Posts

    If any reader has problems understanding what I write or if there are factual errors, please comment. I‘m still a Rookie in the field of blogging and sobriety. Tranks for your understanding… Read more

  • RAS and PAWS

    As I said before, it might feel a bit random or unstructured how I post my thoughts on this blog, but at the moment I just try to write off my mind thoughts that have to be outsourced from my brain, because otherwise it may just blow to pieces. That’s why I want to address… Read more

  • The Bad Advisor

    In a programme and a podcast, it was advised to give the alcohol a personality to make it easier to ‚hate‘ alcohol for its bad influence. The image suggested was that of a bad advisor. I generated mine with AI and printed it. I have it always with me in my diary. And what do… Read more

  • Getting started

    I‘m pretty new to this business, and I‘m a bit unsure where to start. I guess I‘ll just start at a random point and work myself through. In the end it may end up in some sort of Danid Lynch-ish short story, but that would eventually reflect my State-of-mind two months ago, when I finally… Read more