I look at my little girls.... happy, healthy, joyful, free..... they don't drink. They don't seem to have a need to shift their reality. They don't seem to need to blot out their lives.
Somewhere along the line, booze entered the picture and we allowed ourselves to believe we somehow NEEDED it to live, to love, to experience, to have fun, to celebrate, to grow, to have sex, to work, to play....... to _______________.
But obviously that's not true.... it's not somehow 'in our nature' to need alcohol.