Song: Video Killed the Radio Star
Artist: The Buggles
Tuesday Tunes: Flash Back February Edition
We are going way back to the year 1998 (seriously how is that 24 years ago??). Picture it: a college dive bar in Charleston, IL, a group of sorority girls all wearing Steve Madden Platform Slides (if you know you know) and bootcut jeans and LOTS of BEER, and this song comes on….it was 90s mayhem.
This flashback is to a time when drinking was still fun for me. I loved those days: no cares in the world, hanging with my “sisters”, enjoying college life. Shout out KD’s!
However, even when life was “good”, deep down I knew I was different. I was the one who planned the party for the weekend on Monday. I noticed my friends didn’t do that but I just thought I was a “planner.” The drive to drink consumed a lot of my time. Turns out I was already well on my way to full-blown alcoholism.
A quote I heard from a speaker in treatment has resonated with me for years: “drinking was fun until it wasn’t.” This song is a reminder that drinking at one point in my life was in fact fun….and then it wasn’t.
To me, it’s ok to remember the fun that was had because some of it was actually fun. It’s ok to admit that. It’s not ok, for me, to focus on the fun only. It’s that old saying…play the tape forward.
See you next week…as we play the tape forward but in a flashback!
PLAY IT AGAIN! Music can instantly transport you to another state of mind and alter your mood in a heartbeat. So, of course, we’re curating the greatest recovery tunes for our The Ultimate Sober Playlist. This section features select songs that represent some part of our journey and serve as sobriety anthems in reminding us to stay the course. These are the ones that have us saying “Play It Again” and always end up on repeat. No decade or genre is off-limits. Happy listening!
What’s your sobriety theme song? If there is a song you think should be on our playlist, we want to hear about it. Send your requests to thesobercurator@gmail.com
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