Alcohol is only a sensation of everything being okay. It's not real. Whatever is hard today will still be hard tomorrow, or worse. Life will always make us pay debt to our responsibilities. Alcohol makes us deny that the bad things are around when we don't feel them, but we always sober up and realize they are.
Living in an unending state of alcohol induced euphoria is just impossible. There has to be something else. I honestly feel that what we are going through is similar enough to be able to say that our experience is collective. If you make it, you testify that I can make it. Vice versa. I'm not drinking for me, and I'm not drinking because I want to give you hope that you don't have to.