I stopped for what I thought would be a couple of months. It gave me time to examine all the ways alcohol was affecting my life. That was 22 years ago. I’ve occasionally wondered what would change for the better if I went back to drinking. I have never been able to come up with anything that seemed to out-way the downside. Let me just confirm. You can have real fun when you’re not hammered even though it makes being around drunks awkward. I should have learned it a lot sooner. Getting wasted a hundred times is better than a thousand times.