Let me begin by saying, I drink very rarely; few times a year.
When I drink, i get the feeling that my brain in running on powersaving mode; only the most basic functions are operational. It’s a fun feeling when I’m drinking, but I can’t imagine doing that regularly.
I’m not sure if this constitutes as bragging but I am proud of the fact that I can recall information quite well, and any activity which hinders this is not to my liking. The hangover is also bad, where the brain is slow for the next entire day.
I want to know the community thinks about drinking and how it effects/doesn’t affects their work and life and how they get around it. Any alternatives and tips?
I drank for most of my life but once I met my now wife I didn’t see the point of it, since it was entirely related to my horniness and trying to get in a skirt chasing “wolf mode”. I also converted to Islam so that definitely pushed me more in that direction, lol, and I haven’t drank in almost a decade. I’m not shy and/or self-conscious so it doesn’t benefit me in that way (a couple of drinks is more than enough for these kind of folks, or at least should be) and I’m too reckless and easily triggered into aggression (way more so the past but still) so nah, not for me… my substance has always been cannabis anyway. 🫣😅
Fascinating! Religion is something of a hit-and-miss with people. For some it doesn’t work, and for others it works wonders.
Can you elaborate on what you were thinking when you met your wife? How did that make you do a complete 180 on drinking?
I stopped drinking cause what was the point by then? I only drank when I went out with my mates and we only went out for horny reasons (I don’t like sports, I’m a semi shut-in geek 🤓). Personally, I don’t think the effects are fun enough to counteract all the physical discomfort that comes with it, starting with the taste even, and let’s not even talk about the social consequences of drinking excessively. But I think (as potentially blasphemous as it may be) that there’s room for a cheeky drink here and there, that it’s not necessarily problematic or immoral in these particular scenarios… but how easy do people in cultures who socialize around alcohol almost exclusively keep to it without falling into addiction and dependency? 🤔