I Gave up Booze and Miss it all the time

(but I’d still never go back)

Christopher Laine
On the Philosophies of Madness
6 min readDec 31, 2022

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Photo by Dylan de Jonge on Unsplash

It was a year ago that I gave up booze. For good or for ill, I put the drink away. It was a long time in coming, but the time had finally arrived.

I had sunk to an all-time low (and for me, that’s saying a lot), and was drinking a LOT. Between covid and a stressful job and all kinds of other unpleasantness taking place…

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