Alcohol - Love It Or Despise It?

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I'm generally a happy drunk. A very loud, talkative, happy drunk.

It would be hard to imagine life without it once I got started.
I very rarely get drunk, though.
However, I have gotten wasted drunk on a number of occasions. So hungover the next morning that I swore off drinking for life only to start all over again by late afternoon of the same day.

I've sworn that vow I don't know how many times, but sure enough, alcohol lures me back!

Get to know the staff at pretty much any fine dining establishment, go out to the bars with them after work (they all go, almost every night) and they'll practically shove the coke up your nose for you.

I hate it. I hate its taste and its effect. I have no problem with others drinking as much as they want, as long as they bother no one.

Oh, she's fine. That was just a few months ago at this point. And honestly, that situation wasn't nearly as stressful as any average day where she worked previously.

You know how I feel about starting your own business, making your own breaks, and hopefully making it big in whatever you do. Well, when dealing with employee/employer relationships, there's a fine line between a corporation and "acting corporate." A corporation can be anything, but the archetypal "corporate" environment is a human hamster wheel. In her case, it was a hamster wheel combined with intense racial hatred and verbal/mental abuse from people in operations. Compare with an armed robbery: Just give the guy the money and get him out of the building. The cops got the guy within an hour. Simple. What's striking is that the ordeal comparatively stress-free, although she prefers the topic NOT come up in casual conversation.

Anyway…the point being it's only truly extreme circumstances we're ever driven to drinking.

Money is too tight for it anyway, too… We don't go to bars because we just can't afford them. But with no more interest in drinking that we have, that's the most economical way to do it. Sure, a beer for the same serving size is going to be more expensive, but it isn't like taking home an entire 6-pack that you're not going to finish off for 6 months or a year. That's why when we DO drink, it's usually a bottle of wine between the two of us. Wine at least ages. We've got some Biltmore Estate champagne that's aged nearly three years since we brought it home.

Taking a lot of sedatives is an indication that something is wrong.

Besides, I like to have a clear head, because if my enemies come, I want to be ready .

Last edited by Stannis on 20 Feb 2014, 3:08 am, edited 6 times in total.

Well, most of mankind, for our length of time on earth, has had a problem, considering the consumption of alcohol since prehistoric times.

I miss the answer: Neither love it or despise it, but simply consume it carefully from now and then, at special occasions, in moderate amounts?

I don't much care for it, I never want to get drunk, and the stuff taste awful except for that harbor mist wine(after opened and left to sit in fridge for while) and whiskey mixed with root beer(taste like old fashioned root beer. plus I choose another activity which doesn't allow me to drink, so yeah. I do some times consider getting drunk when I'm super sad, but I think that would only make it worst.

By all means avoid drinking when depressed - I know from personal experience it only makes it worse.

LOL. I have been in such circles where drugs are encouraged but it doesn't happen to the level it does with alcohol.

Niether love nor despise it.

It makes me sleepy, and I like to taste wine or sip some more potent drinks.

But drinking with the wrong people can make them verbally abusive, and those are memories I'd like to forget.

But now I'll just have to wait before I drink again. If your drunk dad says, have a swig of this, don't be there to witness it in the first place, or the apocalypse will come.

I haven't had a drink in about a week. I normally drink beer. It wasn't a voluntary stoppage, though. I'm on DSHS and my doctor believes drinking raises my blood pressure. DSHS now requires me to receive treatment otherwise no benefits. So I've been in treatment for a week. No drinking. Of course I miss it. I am saving money, though, so I shouldn't complain.

My complaint is with the treatment program. It's AA/12 step/religious based. That aspect of it is keeping me at arm's length. I can't get into the literature because everything is God this/Higher Power that. There's an alternative treatment program called "A Positive Alternative" that I'll look into next week. Hopefully that'll be more conducive to my receiving help.

I love it, but it's poison.

Haven't had a drink in nearly two months.