Hey man, I read this article while very drunk for a change.

I was always that boring stuck up bastard who wouldn’t drink, so yes, I can relate to the people judging the shit out of you thing.

Actually, most of your article I can relate to. So, if I know that not drinking is actually better, why did I start?

Well, it was the social aspect and then later it was because I drank waaaay too much coffee and energy drinks and couldn’t get to sleep (excuses!). Anyway, I started and now I’m stopping again -hmm, probalby for a little while.

Here are two things I learnt about drinking in universtity.

You know that old joke “God invented whiskey to stop the Irish from taking over the world”? Well I’ve seen so many people who were going to really take society by the balls, people who could have made such a difference in the world, and they wanted to! but they started drinking and then they got a crappy job becasue they had to pay for the booze somehow and then they accidentally got some girl pregnant and they had to stay in their job because they had to support the child. Any relationship which has alcohol as it’s major premise is hell, trust me on that. I pity the children who grew up in such circumstances.

Next I had a friend who was telling me about how the problem with the world was that there were so many stupid people in it. She told me how the government should make this drug which was lots of fun to be on but it made you really, really stupid. So that stupid people would take it and get more and more stupid but they wouldn’t realise it and clever people would take it, get slightly more stupid and realise it and stop, the stupid people would die in stupid ways and the clever people would go on living. She was drinking when she said this and failed to see the irony.

I can tell you a secret and it may sound like I’m encouraging you to drink, hell, a lot of people are going to read “take one more drink, it won’t hurt!”, but that is not what I mean.

Drinking is not like losing your virginity (even though the two may coincide at times!) all those crazy daring things you wanted to do before you started drinking, all those dreams you had which you threw out when you looked at yourself and said “I’m shit, my life is shit”, these are all things you can go back and do when you stop drinking. The only catch is, every time you say “yeah, I’ll just stop drinking agian and I’ll be able to take on the world” it becomes a little harder to believe that. You start adding days to it, like “I´ll stop drinking tomorow”, then “the day after tomorow”, etc…

Long and the short of it: people won’t like you becasue you drink, you’ll just be too fucked to care. You won’t be happier because you’re drunk, you’ll just be too fucked to care, you will accept things you know you shouldn’t.

drink or don’t drink, it doesn’t matter, but don’t blame the drink for what you failed to achieve in your life, the booze didn’t drink you. Your dreams are still there, and yes, you can fuck up so bad without having touched a drop in years (trust me on this one too!) the big difference is that when you’re drunk you say “well, what did you expect you piece of shit?” and when you’re not drinking you say “I’ll have to do better than that”.

Anyway, don’t take me too seriously, I’m drunk.

thanks for writing this and probably saving my liver a few kicks