Walking Through Anniversaries: Maybe I’m a bit of a curmudgeon, but my sobriety date doesn’t feel like a birthday to me—it’s way more complicated than that. For sure, it's a day that marks the beginning of a new life for me, but it's also a little like visiting a cemetery and paying respects to everything that had to happen and had to end. I think it's important to remember what came before the sobriety date because that makes me even more grateful for everything since that day.