I only like drinking when I celebrate something which is never to a couple times a year these days.
Alcohol deprived my foster dad from a good ten more years on this planet.
Alcohol definitely didn’t help when I was married. You’re not supposed to drink a bottle of wine a day with your SO.
Alcohol started so many fights in my life, physical or not. Truly humbling when I think about it.
Alcohol has decimated tons of people in my fields like game development, music and skateboarding. I keep reading, listening to stories. “what happened to this prodigiously great musician?” “he has dementia from decades of drinking”. “why did this brilliant person quit? Drinking problems? Oh wow”. Because alcohol is so pervasive, it’s always surprising to realize how it can and does obliterate lives.
Alcohol is always the number one fuel for people to sexually harass others. Alcohol opens the gates of stupidity and complacency. How many service workers abused by drunk customers, probably all of them.
I’ve been lucky to be blessed with a “will quietly sit his ass down away from noise” type of very drunk behavior. Harmless. Quite rare, it turns out.
I’ve helped drunk people. I’ve talked to them, took care of them. Had a date vomit on my shoes once, while I was holding her to make sure she throws up correctly. I’ve fought with drunk people, calmly arguing to go to fucking bed. Drunk people are the most annoying, violent toddlers in the world. At first it’s kind of cute but you reach a point where you just want to slap the shit out of them to send them to sober land. This is so not fun.
Alcohol ruins bodies like crazy. You drink regularly and your body looks 20 years older, easily. Easily. You think your back hurts, that you’re getting old, but it’s just your kidneys and liver working OT to dissolve this poison.
And for some reason alcohol is super legal, available everywhere, at any price, any quantity. It’s wild.
Obviously with the pandemic, tons of people started drinking more and probably many became addicted and won’t tell a soul.
It’s not too late. Drink water, quit those relationships, start running etc.