Sunday, February 16, 2014

Alcohol and Intoxicants

"The person who is interested in alcohol must be living in misery, in a kind of suffering. That’s why he wants somehow to forget it all. Alcohol is nothing but a chemical strategy to forget your miseries, anxieties, your problems, to forget yourself.
When you are too worried, too tense and you take to alcohol. Yes, for a few hours you will forget all your worries and all your tensions, but the alcohol cannot take your worries away forever; it cannot solve them. And while you are drowned in alcohol those worries are growing, becoming stronger; you are giving them time to grow. And when you are back the next morning with a hangover and a headache added to the worries, you will be surprised; they are bigger than when you had left them. Then it becomes a pattern of life: become again and again intoxicated so you can forget — but again and again you have to face your life. This is not an intelligent way to live. I am against all intoxicants, against all drugs. They don’t help; they only help you to postpone problems."

The above nails it--it's all about escape and release done in a most unhealthy way.

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