I think every so often we all tend to ‘forget why we drank’ and start to romanticize the drink.
For these occurrences, I always go back to a quote that I’ve found somewhere here on SR and that is worth rereading over and over again:
"Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane."
Craig Ferguson