What a great post. Thank you.
For me, the memory of having to plan events around drinking or in fact where the drinking was the reason for the event at all is one of many reasons I do not drink.
The long walks just to have an excuse for the pub at the end, stopping at friends with a bottle of wine to avoid having to go home and pop one with no "excuse" at all.
Being freed from the control that drinking had over my life is one of the many reasons I will never drink again and I will never change my mind.
Thanks for the reminder.