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Hello dear Hive learners:
for this opportunity I want to talk to you about this interesting topic of the week that is called in a drunk state.
About this, I have many anecdotes that I share, but today I am going to focus particularly on one because this reflects, let's say, the essence of everything I lived.
I want before I start to tell you to tell you that I was an alcoholic for many years.
I was stuck and abandoned in the drink for about 40 years, so you can imagine the amount of experiences and anecdotes that I have about this, not to mention that I had to live on the street in a state of mendicancy, and you will understand that the amount of anecdotes and experiences that I have is enormous.
But this time I am not going to talk to you about an experience of my friends (who also have many and very crazy and comical) but one that I lived about five years ago. It happened to me here where I currently live.
It happens to be that I live in this community, there is a building with many apartments.
I usually have the problem that the noises (as the buildings are very close to each other, next to each other), it is created as a kind of sound tunnel where any sound is amplified by the resonance that there is, and the proximity that there is between the building and building, and the tunnel that is created, creates an appropriate condition for any sound to be amplified and magnified the way it usually sounds.
And obviously when it is high hours of the night, the sound can be magnified and amplified much more.
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Happens that the neighbors that I have are still living today here, they have a bad habit, a habit that is very annoying, that is to make noise and hammer at night.
I already came with several episodes of annoyance as a result of that, and I had told the neighbors on the top floor to know that please do not stop hammering, it is very annoying, that avoided that people could sleep, and it turns out that they had a child who played football.
Think a child with a soccer ball practicing soccer at night, to be quite annoying!
I then found out and found out that the boy played football at night practicing it and making noises over the walls and floor so much.
I couldn't understand what was this all about.
They say he had a football teacher who was in another country, and I think he was in Japan and the child had to practice playing football at night because in Japan it was during the day, and then the teacher who trained him gave him live training through the internet or the smartphone while in Japan it was during the day, and here it was late at night.
But anyway, that was the reason they claimed, so that the child was practicing football and making that hellish noise at night.
What happens is that what I want to tell you, which is the central issue of this publication, is that that day, I had to endure the annoyance and the pain, the annoyance of having that noise of not being able to watch television or anything, I started to drink a spiritual drink that has a high alcohol degree, and that is usually made in illegal or homemade alambics here in my country, is known as cocuy.
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It is a drink with a very high alcohol degree, I think it has 80 or 90 alcohol degrees, and since it is illegal, it is distilled illegally. I don't know.
You don't know what degree the alcohol is going to have or how much, how much you are going to get drunk.
The point is that I was drinking, I started drinking that because it is very cheap and easy to access, and when I was in the high hours of the night, that I started to hear the noise, they kept making noise, football ball striking walls.
Was this boy, I got upset and I started with a broomstick.
Possessed by the drunkard and had to give him with the broomstick the upper part of my roof to the top floor, so that the neighbors would stop making noise and they didn't stop making noise.
So I started, I went crazy inside the drunkard, I didn't know more about me, and I started screaming that they kept making noise.
Well, I was going to make noise for them all night and that's how it was. I let myself go, and I think I had until two in the morning approximately making noise and not letting anyone in the community sleep.
But I didn't realize it, I was just very upset because they were making noise at me, and as they didn't leave me alone, I decided to annoy them, especially them until two in the morning.
Of course, that brought me a series of problems afterwards, and I had to apologize and all that, but explain that it was based on that.
But then the next day when we met, they told me that I had said bad words, that I had offended them. I had offended several neighbors, and I really don't remember having offended anyone.
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But I do remember having been with a broomstick hitting the roof of my apartment to make noise. And I do remember also having been doing it until late at night.
And well, then came all the shame and all the regret of having offended them. And I don't remember having gone through that situation.
But it's just one of so many situations that makes alcohol feel like you're uninhibited. And alcohol makes you uninhibited, and it shows in this way, right?.
And well, this is what happened to me.
Today I want to tell you that approximately seven years, five years, I don't know, many years that I don't drink anymore, I decided to quit.
And simply if it causes me to drink, I do it when my body asks me to and I drink a wine or a beer or two. Here quietly in my house and that's it.
But in a relaxed way, watching television.
I think that everything with measure is the best and most rational way to do it.
So I hope you have learned from this publication that drinking has to be something pleasant.
And only when the body asks you, right?. In a rational way.
Because I have seen and I can tell you from my experience as an alcoholic that I was even in Alcoholics Anonymous.
That it is not good at all to give up and drown your sorrows.
Because the best thing is always to face the realities and the problems.
And not to let alcohol or any other type of drug try to solve this. So live a healthy, healthy life.
Smile and drink moderately when you go to do it.
It is the best advice I can give you.
This is my black cat "manclar", this account is to honor his dead (it happened years ago).
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