Are You Ashamed of How Good Alcohol Tricked You?
Sometimes I look back on my drunken behavior or how drunk people can act, and I wonder how stupid I must have been to not see through this. The equation is pretty simple.
Problem: Alcohol causes all sorts of troubles for you.
Solution: Do not drink alcohol!
The two lines above don’t sound like a particularly hard puzzle to solve. Why is it still possible for alcohol to come into your life and to trick you and to disguise you for so long?
It can get everybody, the simple man, the sophisticated man the mom and the daughter. Maybe this substance is not as easy going as it seems and the solution to the problem is not as straightforward as the two sentences above are suggesting.
One of the biggest tricks of this addiction is it can come very slowly and creep up on you for decades. Ten years ago, you enjoyed two beers on the weekend? Fast-forward and booom you are dependent on the drink, or you are a problem drinker.
No way, I would have thought in my 20s that I can get a problem with alcohol. In fact, I thought that I am special in this case, and it won’t get me. I think I know by now that I am no special, and who planted this thought in my head.
I didn’t even fully realize that I might have a problem late into my 30ies. Everything was fine, I could work, and I had a life. There was no problem over here! Only the others who could not handle it and were sleeping under the bridge had the problem, right?
We could come back to the solution. Why all of this for so many years? Just don’t drink! Maybe we shouldn’t play around with a substance with such a horrible track record?
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