Why I don't drink anymore
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Why I don't drink anymore
I forget who originally posted this a while back, but it's worth repeating.
"How come you don't drink anymore?" a renewed acquaintance from long ago asked the other day.
"Anymore than who?, I asked.
"I mean any longer. How come you don't drink anything these days?"
"Drink? I drink...coffee, milk, juice, tea, soda pop, water..."
"I mean drink" he said. " you know, booze."
"Oh, booze, No I don't drink booze any more, you're right," I said, "I couldn't trust it anymore. It turned on me. Once my friend, it became my enemy."
"Maybe you got a bad batch." he said.
"No the sauce is the same. I changed. Because I have this illness of alcoholism, my tolerance weakened. Alcoholism doesn't come in bottles, it comes in people."
"Sounds pretty confusing" the fellow said
"You think you're confused," I said, "You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy... I drank for joy and became miserable... I drank to be outgoing and became self centered... I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely."
"I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious...I drank for friendship and made enemies... I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self pity... I drank for sleep and wakened without rest."
"I drank for strength and felt weak.. I drank medicinally and got sick.. I drank because I thought my job called for it and I lost my job.. I drank for relaxation and got the shakes.. I drank for confidence and became uncertain.. I drank for courage and became afraid.. I drank for assurance and became doubtful... I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out... I drank to make conversation and it tied my tongue... I drank for warmth and lost my cool. I drank for coolness and lost my warmth... I drank to feel heaven and came to know hell. I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom and became a slave...I drank to erase problems and saw them multiply... I drank to cope with life and invited death ..or worse... I drank because I had the right and everything turned out wrong."
"Gosh!" My friend exclaimed, "That must have taken a bunch of booze to get you in that shape."
"Just one" I told him, "The first one. For me one is too many, and a thousand is not enough."
"So that is why you don't drink anymore...?"
"Yep, I make it a rule, I DON'T DRINK WHILE I'M SOBER!"
"How come you don't drink anymore?" a renewed acquaintance from long ago asked the other day.
"Anymore than who?, I asked.
"I mean any longer. How come you don't drink anything these days?"
"Drink? I drink...coffee, milk, juice, tea, soda pop, water..."
"I mean drink" he said. " you know, booze."
"Oh, booze, No I don't drink booze any more, you're right," I said, "I couldn't trust it anymore. It turned on me. Once my friend, it became my enemy."
"Maybe you got a bad batch." he said.
"No the sauce is the same. I changed. Because I have this illness of alcoholism, my tolerance weakened. Alcoholism doesn't come in bottles, it comes in people."
"Sounds pretty confusing" the fellow said
"You think you're confused," I said, "You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy... I drank for joy and became miserable... I drank to be outgoing and became self centered... I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely."
"I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious...I drank for friendship and made enemies... I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self pity... I drank for sleep and wakened without rest."
"I drank for strength and felt weak.. I drank medicinally and got sick.. I drank because I thought my job called for it and I lost my job.. I drank for relaxation and got the shakes.. I drank for confidence and became uncertain.. I drank for courage and became afraid.. I drank for assurance and became doubtful... I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out... I drank to make conversation and it tied my tongue... I drank for warmth and lost my cool. I drank for coolness and lost my warmth... I drank to feel heaven and came to know hell. I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom and became a slave...I drank to erase problems and saw them multiply... I drank to cope with life and invited death ..or worse... I drank because I had the right and everything turned out wrong."
"Gosh!" My friend exclaimed, "That must have taken a bunch of booze to get you in that shape."
"Just one" I told him, "The first one. For me one is too many, and a thousand is not enough."
"So that is why you don't drink anymore...?"
"Yep, I make it a rule, I DON'T DRINK WHILE I'M SOBER!"
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Too true!! Thanks for posting!! "One is too many and 1000 never enough". Make that 100,000,000,000!! lol, I would always want "just one more". I was never satisified in booze but was only as happy as how many I had left. The only time I was free of the craving was when i was unconscious and even then as soon as my eyes opened the very first thought and action was cracking a can.
Grateful to be sober, grateful to be an alcoholic.
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Grateful to be sober, grateful to be an alcoholic.
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Originally Posted by NEOMARXIST 
Too true!! Thanks for posting!! "One is too many and 1000 never enough". Make that 100,000,000,000!! lol, I would always want "just one more". I was never satisified in booze but was only as happy as how many I had left. The only time I was free of the craving was when i was unconscious and even then as soon as my eyes opened the very first thought and action was cracking a can.
Grateful to be sober, grateful to be an alcoholic.
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Grateful to be sober, grateful to be an alcoholic.
Peace
I remember about a year and a half ago I was in a club, it was 2.45am, they had just shouted last orders and I had just finished work in a bar at 1am. I would throw as much drink down my neck between 1am and 3am as I could. Anyway, I ordered up two beers, even though I had one in front of me, (three beers to drink in 15mins) and a friend came along, thought one of the beers was for them and started drinking from it. I was the angriest man in the world. I hated them in that second because now I was going to have to make do with two more beers rather than three.
Crazy stuff.
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It was originally someone else that posted it months ago, but I saved it and thought it was time to bring it out and dust it off. I agree completely with everything it says - yes, yes, and yes... right down the line. To me, it lays out so many reasons to stay sober and not one reason to drink.
I agree completely with everything it says - yes, yes, and yes... right down the line. To me, it lays out so many reasons to stay sober and not one reason to drink. 
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Well if it werent for the hangover, spins, stink, ANXIETY, chaos, apologies, missing memory, lost productivity, MISERY, oh and SHAME, "where did I leave that bottle?", hopelessness, and "when can I sneak a drink to take this edge off?" ..... maybe I would drink.
Maybe its easier not to!!!
Maybe its easier not to!!!
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