Why I'll Never Touch Booze...
Normally I do posts in here about how I'm feeling on a particular day and leave my personal beliefs off of this for the most part. Well, I figure its about time for me to write about something that's a sore subject with me.
Drinking.
I've seen drinking do more harm than good many times over. I had a friend up north who's an alcoholic, and I hope she finds a way out of there sometime soon as it effects their entire family with enormous negative energy. My own father used to drink heavily when I was younger, and I remember it bringing all of us down...he stopped drinking and he got a lot better, and was a lot easier to be around. Not to mention the numerous drunken driving deaths because people can't make rational judgements when they are drunk or have a buzz. And people die from blood poisoning, choking in their sleep...all these from booze. To me, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
I talk with people about it, usually with me starting off with the line, "drinking's overrated." Most people look at me and usually chuckle. I get a lot of different reactions as I work at a convenience store that sells alcohol. I think some find it funny I say that, but yet I still sell the stuff (having to find any way to pay the bills SUCKS).
People go over the reasons why they drink, but they don't make much sense.
- Partying: What?? You mean you HAVE to have booze at parties? Can't people get together and not have the stuff along?
- Stress: If you have to rely on a substance to help relieve stress, that's a weak course of action. Then again, people look for the easy way to "relieve" stress, and go to the bottle.
- Nothing better to do: This one I can almost believe, if it weren't for the times we live in now. We've got so many things going on around us now, no matter who you are or how much you make, there's something to do.
Those are the three biggest reasons I think of off the top of my head. I guess it all boils down to mankind being a bored species, looking for things to do to keep us entertained and keep motivated to live.
One last note: I guess why drinking pisses me off so much is that it makes people act weird and out of control. Given my personality, I don't like being out of control with what I'm doing. I WANT the memories I get each and every night I'm on this earth. I don't want to forget times gone by just because I had to have a little something to go with the party/occasion/whatever. Our memories are all we have. I guess the importence of them varies greatly from person to person.
Drinking.
I've seen drinking do more harm than good many times over. I had a friend up north who's an alcoholic, and I hope she finds a way out of there sometime soon as it effects their entire family with enormous negative energy. My own father used to drink heavily when I was younger, and I remember it bringing all of us down...he stopped drinking and he got a lot better, and was a lot easier to be around. Not to mention the numerous drunken driving deaths because people can't make rational judgements when they are drunk or have a buzz. And people die from blood poisoning, choking in their sleep...all these from booze. To me, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
I talk with people about it, usually with me starting off with the line, "drinking's overrated." Most people look at me and usually chuckle. I get a lot of different reactions as I work at a convenience store that sells alcohol. I think some find it funny I say that, but yet I still sell the stuff (having to find any way to pay the bills SUCKS).
People go over the reasons why they drink, but they don't make much sense.
- Partying: What?? You mean you HAVE to have booze at parties? Can't people get together and not have the stuff along?
- Stress: If you have to rely on a substance to help relieve stress, that's a weak course of action. Then again, people look for the easy way to "relieve" stress, and go to the bottle.
- Nothing better to do: This one I can almost believe, if it weren't for the times we live in now. We've got so many things going on around us now, no matter who you are or how much you make, there's something to do.
Those are the three biggest reasons I think of off the top of my head. I guess it all boils down to mankind being a bored species, looking for things to do to keep us entertained and keep motivated to live.
One last note: I guess why drinking pisses me off so much is that it makes people act weird and out of control. Given my personality, I don't like being out of control with what I'm doing. I WANT the memories I get each and every night I'm on this earth. I don't want to forget times gone by just because I had to have a little something to go with the party/occasion/whatever. Our memories are all we have. I guess the importence of them varies greatly from person to person.