Considering your username...
...don't drink alcohol right now. Only consume alcohol to celebrate good times. The first time you use it to numb bad times, you're taking the first steps down a path of self destruction - and your friend would not want that.
This guy cares. Listen to him.
It is worth noting that not all people recieve a massive endorphin rush from the consumption of alcohol. If you look around in social settings, you will find most people can nurse a drink. They can take it or leave it.
I have always been the type to think: “What the hell are you guys doing, drink your drink!” As I finish mine diligently and proceed to the next one. Took me long enough to find out most people don’t get that amazing rush from booze like it gives me. Having said that, if you have this characteristic when it comes to alcohol, I heed you to be particularly careful when it comes to alcohol in general. At which point, we need to ask: At what point in this progression do we consider a person with a genetic predisposition to enjoy alcohol an alcoholic? Or does it really matter? If you find it to be addicting, be mindful of this. And never be sold your personality from a commercial of “young professionals” standing around confidentially in suits drinking whiskey on a roof-top. This billion-dollar industry markets to our deepest needs and insecurities.
It is a trap for you and me, brothers.
The jew wants us drunk and stupid...White men should resist intoxication.
Problem with drug is that it's "good"
Lots of bad stuffs with a good taste
Desires are like children, the more you yield to them the more they ask from you
I'm an alcoholic. Drinking it makes me feel almost superhuman at times. That must be the endorphin rush.
I wish someone would have said this to me many years ago.
Can confirm. 12 years a drunk after combat left me hollow and defeated.
As a combat veteran myself...
...why are so many combat veterans pussies?
Good question.
Same background, same mentality as you.
It's like, the knight doesn't go and slay the dragon then expect to live off the townsfolk for the rest of his life. He is supposed to melt back into society. I know, I know what it is like to be waken in the middle of the night with visions of faces I never bothered to take a good look at, patrol the house for no reason, braced the door because I just sleep better... but I don't whine about it. SUCK IT UP!
Easier said than done
Is it though?
Only if you're already teetering on alcoholism will you immediately think "I need a drink to help get me through this".
Also, I've never seen alcohol make a sad person happy. It turns them into hysterically crying babies in adult bodies. I'll never understand it- at least heroin genuinely makes you not give a shit about anything for a few hours. Booze doesn't do that, so I can't grasp why people "drown their sorrows", because "drowning their sorrows" involves sloppily crying about them while drunk. It'd be one thing if this helped them to heal and confront those sorrows, but it doesn't.
Alcohol doesn't relieve emotional suffering. It heightens it and makes you look like a disgusting fool.
Alcoholics aren't aiming to feel better or drown their sorrows, they want to continue to feel bad for themselves
To play devil’s advocate, in my youth, I’ve used alcohol to get through my issues. It gave me artificial strength and control of my thoughts. If I was angry or sad, I could drink and rationalize myself out of the emotion. This is a horrible coping mechanism and I will never return to it. Face you life, men. Hold strong to your values and morals. I like that Poal has such a strong sense of these things.
Yes...even drunks KNOW that, but it also blurs their reality, and tomorrow they will have forgotten most or all of the embarrassing shit.
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