Sober

I have decided that I have got to try something new. I need to give up the booze for 30 days. For some of you, I am sure this seems like an easy and effortless task, but for those with a mighty thirst for the "occaisional drink" this is harder than giving yourself papercuts to your eyelids. Not that I feel compelled to drink all the time or am even overconsuming or abusing alcohol on most occasions. However, when looking down the family tree I have seen a pattern of males who have been overpowered by the effect of alcohol. I am sure none of these guys thought their recreational activies would one day effect them and their famalies, but sadly they did. I don't want to use my twenties just like I used college as an excuse to over imbib. A life without drinking the wines and beers I truly love is tough to imagine. A life without hangovers, cost of alcohol, a healthy liver and etc., is nice to imagine. 30 days seems like a good time to experience life without the bottle and see what is possible. I am sure I'll have many people try to throw me off course and snicker and predict my seemingless demise, so be it. The problem is that too many social situations arrive that call for cocktails. Birthdays, holidays, wednesdays, whatever. If you have never tried to completely remove alcohol from your diet, trust me, it's harder than you think. First week, no problem. Second week, getting harder but adapting to saying no. By the third week, each neon budweiser emblazoned window display looks like the lights of heaven and the memory of a glorious cold brew cleansing your palate and then your soul will turn you into a desperate, broken and thirsty beast. You can usually find any excuse, the easiest being well, I made it over two weeks. I deserve a beer, damnit. This time period will lapse my birthday on sept 8 and my girlfriend bday on aug 30th. Good enough excuses to put it off another month and run to 7-11 and pick up a sixer of schlafly's finest. See, what a pussified way out. I am too comfortable too often and things need to get shaken up a bit. Here we go.