Now I'm sober and realise how much drunk people repeat themselves and talk endlessly about themselves, what they thing and want and how little interest they have in other people or things, and am able to reflect honestly, I realise that actually I was far more of a bore when I was a drunk than I am now while I'm sober. Nowadays, I'm happy to listen rather than just spew my own self-obsessed garbage into everyone's ears. And if I have nothing to say, I am able to keep quiet because I don't feel the need to keep pushing myself into the centre of things.