Alcohol

By Katy Swain, 14 December, 2023

Today's life lesson is this:

Don't engage in an activity if, on the basis of what you know about yourself and the activity, there are reasonable grounds for believing it will likely be injuriously habit-forming.

It's not pithy; I'll work on it later. What brings it to mind is my need for a good old moan at the moment.

I'm a touch unwell just now.

I started using alcohol in my late teens because I was not a happy little Vegemite, and I wanted to die. So my problems were twofold: 

  • It's jolly hard just getting through the day with that attitude, and
  • I couldn't directly kill myself, because I'm incredibly squeamish.

I found that being slightly tipsy most of the time and very, very drunk the rest of the time solved the proximate issue, while ensuring that I was steadily working toward the larger objective.