Whenever I tell people at social events that I don’t drink they lose their minds. I know how to make people lose their minds That’s how I got stuck in a dead-end 9–5 job in the first place, where I had to kiss executive ass cracks with a brown grin on a daily basis. There’s no point copying the majority and drinking myself stupid. I value every minute of the life I got given back after a 2015 near-miss with cancer. I don’t want to be normal and live a mediocre life. Most people will disagree with everything I’m saying. I understand alcohol is seen as a part of everyday life. If you find yourself on the side of the majority, it should be an alarm bell If you want to do something with your life you need high energy, not alcohol-fuelled days where you walk through life like a zombie. So this moronic alcohol life isn’t going to get easier, either. Health expert Dan Go says the older we get the harder it is to recover from a night of drinking. And often, you feel low on energy for days after one drinking session. Yes, alcohol gives you a few hours of high energy and fearlessness. That question hijacked so many dumb drinking nights. “Tim, how can you perform at your best tomorrow if you’re hungover?” If I had a writing day or a workday after a night of planned drinking, I used that as a deterrent. ![]() One way I got over drinking was to think about tomorrow. Someone needs to rewrite this story of fun that society teaches us. The dumbest thing about drinking is people think they need it to “have fun.” I mean, imagine thinking that life can only be fun with alcohol.įun isn’t pissing all over the public toilet seat, screaming at randoms, and vomiting at the end of the night. It might sound funny to read this sort of nonsense, but it’s actually just a sign of moronic behavior.ĭrinking alcohol makes us morons. She could no longer get to work … and it eventually cost her job. Her parents went crazy and took the car away. My friend and I drove a girlfriend’s VW Beetle down a tight side street and scratched thirty cars in a row. Photo by Blake Wisz on Unsplash Drunk equals moronic behavior I no longer needed liquid confidence to get through the day. Only once I dealt with my mental illness did the need to drink disappear. It worked for a while until things came crashing down. Alcohol helped warp my reality so I could escape it. The truth was I didn’t want to face the raging fire going on in my head. I got so drunk I’d drive my BMW 100 mph down 24 mph streets with kiddy crossings.Īll to impress strangers or the dumbasses in my car egging me on. In my 20s, I ran around town as an out-of-control drunk. “Drunks have a problem with reality, not with sobriety” People get to see the real you, and when they do, it superglues people to your life faster. Alcohol was a band-aid on my love life that kept falling off in the shower when I got home, lonely once again.Īs I’ve got older, I’ve found it’s easier to socialize without alcohol.Īll the circus tricks and drunk clown faces are removed. I wasn’t comfortable being a 30 year old male that couldn’t find love while all my friends were getting married and making babies.Īlcohol helped cover up the awkwardness, the feeling of being exposed, the disappointment. That describes the opposite of my old self, perfectly. Socializing with alcohol is a cover-upĮntrepreneur and author of Do Epic Sh*t, Ankur Warikoo, says “If you are comfortable dancing in public without alcohol or drugs, you are at peace with who you are.” I never walk out the door without my wife’s sniff test.Īlcohol perhaps wasn’t the only thing that ruined the would-be marriage to the startup girl. ![]() Thankfully, through painful dog training, I no longer have body odor issues anymore. After she met me she told me the bad news. My now-wife disagrees with what happened. It ruined something I desperately needed at that time in my life: love. I drank the evil alcoholic liquid to make the night a success. Then I went to drop her home and she said “we should just be friends.” ![]() We drank the night away.Ī few drinks in I started to slightly slur my words. Mind-blowing cocktails oozed out of fancy glassware. It was a new style of bar that didn’t have an obvious entrance and was secret to most Australians. It came time to wow her with a cocktail bar I found. I went to wild lengths to set up a special date full of a series of activities fit for a Hollywood romance.Īll was going to plan. “Shall we formalize this with a proper date?” She was my type - and extremely entrepreneurial. One woman I met at a startup event took the cake.
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