Alcohol becomes more overrated when you begin to drink too much...
Alcohol becomes more overrated when you begin to drink too much...
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
I think it may be a psychological thing, the fact that many people feel that they are obliged to do things they would rather not.
I mentioned Donald trump earlier in this thread on account that he doesn't drink alcohol. He has since stated that he loves working, but this is an attitude which I certainly don't subscribe to. For me the ultimate relaxation comes from not working: I was once talking to a man whose wife called to him to prepare a horse for his daughter's gymkhana, he sighed and said: ' I don't mind doing things as long as I don't have to do them.'
My sentiments entirely.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
I think alcohol is overrated. Who wants to be wasted when you can rather be sober, relishing life?
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Any single person who wants to get laid. Taking your clothes off in public is embarrassing if you're sober.
"Wine maketh glad the heart of man," sayeth the Bible. The right amount of alcohol heightens one's enthusiasm, whether one is discussing literature or falling in love. The problem is that the proper degree of intoxication cannot be maintained with any precision.
Interesting perspective Ecurb, not that I need alcohol to take off my clothes, to get laid!!
From a writers perspective on the other hand, I always remember the Hemingway maxim " Write drunk / Edit sober."