First of all, I wish you the best of luck, and like you said...to each his own. But two things come to mind when i read this post...
1. I am finding that by going to AA the easiest thing so far is actually putting down the drink and drugs...the hard part is learing how to "live" in every other aspect of my life without them. Meaning, if life was good, I drank and used. If life was bad, I drank or used. If life was indiffernt I, and of course I am only speaking for myself, I drank or used. So for me, its a learning process, I use the rooms of AA as a means to better my life, besides the obvious reason for wanting to stay sober.
2. Someday I may be able to help someone that was in my shoes 60 days ago. I was homeless, helpless, and hopeless, and I never want to feel like that again. I was suicidal, and under the right conditions, homicidal. When I went to rehab, someone told me, I dont ever have to feel like I did at that moment ever again. I go to meeting to see newcomers, as a reminder of a time in my life I never want to revisit, and also to be able to help someone who may need me. I reached out for help and AA reached back, and I never want to forget that.
Like you said, we are all different, and simply by not drinking I am able to do the things you suggest, I currently am employable again and I am doing things I have wanted to do while talking about them at bars or alone in my room. I can actually make plans and follow through with them instead of just talking about them in a drunken stooper. I currently am back in the gym and enjoying sports again, just to name a few. Its not just about putting down the poison for me, its about a whole change in every aspect of my life. And I learn these things from the ppl in AA. I would have it no other way, cause it just works for me, as other things may just work for you. Again, either way, gl to us both and live in today!!