Escaping the alcohol trap
Whether you are thinking about stopping drinking or you have already joined the sober life you will come across this problem often:
Everyone drinks alcohol so how bad can it really be?
Everyone drinks which makes me feel antisocial
Everyone drinks and they don’t like that I don’t.
Just become everyone is doing something does not make it right. You only have to go back fifty years and EVERYONE smoked cigarettes. Do you think the millions of people who went on the develop lung cancer were glad they just went along with everyone else?
There is no safety in numbers with alcohol, just because everyone you know drinks does not make it a safe product, reduce your chances of getting addicted or suffering harm in some way.
Alcoholism kills millions of people every year – it doesn’t care how many drink.
Whether one person plays Russian roulette or a billion people play the odds remain the same for each person holding the gun. Every pull of the trigger is a separate unique incident and is completely independent of and uninfluenced by all the other triggers being pulled at that time.
Drinking a poison for fun is nothing short of insane but even insanity looks normal if repeated often enough.
Let me give you an example… if I stood in the middle of Trafalgar Square in London dressed as clown, riding around on a tiny child’s bicycle. People would quite rightly point and ridicule my behaviour. I would be the unusual freak at the party for all to see.
But, if everyone at Trafalgar Square that day was dressed as a clown apart from me, then I would be the still be the freak and my behaviour would be classified as unusual and weird despite the fact that I was the only person being normal.
This is exactly what happens when you stop drinking poison for fun. You are the sane person standing in the asylum and all the inmates are pointing at you and calling you a freak.
The good news for you is you can see the insanity for what it is, and walk calmly to the exit and leave it all behind. The drinkers on the other hand can’t leave because they don’t even know they are in the asylum in the first place.
Stop drinking alcohol today… and never go back – it’s very good advice!
Craig Beck
Stop Drinking Expert
http://www.stopdrinkingexpert.com
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