excellent: "ultimately, I remembered my drinking realities."
Some of my closest friends, and of course my partner, have used my turning sober as a launching point to discuss how wrong it feels to them for alcohol to play such an intrinsic and ubiquitous role in every gathering. The whole "craft" movement has played into this so heavily with marketing that makes it seem like everything MUST be gourmet. Well sorry...vodka cannot be made gourmet even if Tito makes it with his own little hands.
I guess I wanted to get that off my chest!! LOL