Sometimes we wondered aloud if ours was the right path. Weren’t we supposed to be building something of meaning? We were 29 years old, the same age my mother was when she had me. Lindsay talked about his father, who had moved all the way from Australia and started his own business. What had we done?
But then we’d go to the bar and just repeat what we’d done the night before.
—Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Category: SOBRIETY
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A year later, I quit drinking. Not forever, but for 18 months, which felt like forever. And in that stretch of sobriety, much of my happiness came back to me. Weight dropped off my hips. My checking account grew heavy with unused beer money.
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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If I want a drink because I’ve had a hard day and ‘deserve’ a drink, or if something bad has happened and I want a drink to ‘escape’ from it then I don’t drink. Ever. That is the rule. You can only have a beer that is just a beer. When you are not drinking it for any other reason than it tastes nice.
The Unifying Theory of Alcohol
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Drinking blurred my edges and made me feel physically part of the world, entwined with everything around me: his body, the salt air, the rush and hiss of the water. This was the opposite of what I’d felt most of my life, that fervent desire to disappear from whatever moment I’d found myself inhabiting, so that I could fast-forward to another moment in the future, once my real life had begun.
—Leslie Jamison, For Leslie Jamison, Running and Drinking Were The Two Quickest Ways to Escape
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People, who wish to discipline the sexual organs should avoid drinking those artificial concoctions which are called ‘aperitifs’ – presumably because they open a way to the stomach for the vast meal which is to follow. Not only are they harmful to our bodies, but their fraudulent and artificial character greatly offends the conscience wherein God dwells. For what does wine lack that we should sap its healthy vigor by adulterating it with a variety of condiments?
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“Desire for indulgence and special feelings remains, yet it feels distant to you now, a familiar call you know not to answer. You find yourself taking measures to maintain this distance. This makes you necessarily a teetotaler, because after a single glass of wine the higher faculties start to erode and accountability fails. Naturally, you believe it is best if others do not drink either.”
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The Bible tells us not to indulge in lusts of the flesh, because God knows how difficult it will be for us to recognize the truth about life if we do. When people in the Land of Flesh look around, they see nothing but death. But when people in the Land of the Spirit look around, they see only life—nothing ever dies in the Land of the Spirit. Then what a foolish thing it is, really, to debate about whether unnecessary physical indulgences are harmful—to wonder whether a little marijuana will do any damage, or whether regular smoking and a little drinking binge now and then is going to matter much. Every physical indulgence we add to ourselves—and especially the ones that serve mostly to calm our nerves or lift our spirits (things that should never be done by anything material, but only by God)—will just root us all the more inescapably in the Land of Flesh, where there is no life, no kingdom of heaven, no hope in God.
—Dee Pennock,Who is God? Who Am I? Who Are You?
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“You’re either creative or you’re not. Drugs won’t help with that.”
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“I have such an addictive personality. I know that if I were to try some wine tonight, you probably would never see me again.”
—Joshua Fields Millburn
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