Anonymous asked: Why do you drink so often?
1. Booze, being one of the oldest inventions of civil society, is worthy of celebrating.
2. It certainly makes things more lively, both as a social lubricant and personally.
3. And I quote Christopher Hitchens, who I find kind of distasteful on other topics other than alcohol: ” I decided to take it because it helped my concentration, it stopped me being bored — it stopped other people being boring. It would make me want to prolong the conversation and enhance the moment.” If the bolded portion doesn’t move you, I don’t know what does.
4. There’s a sense of romanticism (even though I wholly despise it as a philosophical movement) to drinking, which I find ironic seeing as I have witnessed what alcoholism can do to people first hand, e.g. my father.
5. I don’t drink that often in fact, maybe twice a month at best, but am prone to benders at times (the Fest, this week).
6. I quote Homer Simpson: “To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
7. Frankly, that’s hardly your business.
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