Stop Drinking

it matters because you matter.

Alcohol is a depressant that steals your joy, steals your confidence, steals your hope, steals your you. It robs you of the ability to plan beyond the next bottle, it poisons your mind and keeps you downtrodden, and all it gives you in return is a short-lived artificial high that gets shorter and shorter each time.

because for me, my perception was warped to insanity, and my world and future improved immeasurably when I stopped for good. life really started improving. i seriously used to think, why take away the one thing that makes me feel good, truthfully I hadn't felt good in years, i was delusional. wasn't possible to see from the hole I'd dug. it's a disease, maybe not in the conventional sense but it is progressive and it will kill me. it talks to me and tells me I don't have it. cancer does not talk to you.

From a purely practical standpoint, taking a break from drinking will lower your tolerances, allowing you to get the same level of effect with less liquid when you do pick it back up.

that said, there's more to it than financial efficiency.

I do sober september every year for the past 3 years, mostly so I can keep telling myself that I don't have a problem. Every time I realize that I just generally feel better after that, and I'd benefit from just quitting completely.