Life is a calculated series of trade-offs. I've picked mine, and I'm really enjoying where they're taking me.
Life is a calculated series of trade-offs. I've picked mine, and I'm really enjoying where they're taking me.
The pain of watching someone you love die slowly, agonizingly from cancer is difficult to imagine. So is the pain of realizing it's happening to you and wishing you could've done things differently.
It sounds like you don't have anyone/anything to live for right now, but you never know if that will change.
This would all be moot if having 6+ drinks a day were the only way to be happy, but there are lots of options to choose from before settling on something harmful. Hopefully you have tried many others (or will try many others) before deciding that happiness requires an early death.
I came to peace with my death. It can come anytime. It might not come too soon ( I am a healthy beast at my 40's), but I am not afraid of it.
We live anyway furthe like a hologram through other's memories. And that is a thing to celebrate.
Everybody changes their tune when they get there.
I don't buy that.
I've never been a drinker, too much of a problematic family history attached to the stuff. I think what made things harder for those with an issue in my family and those I know currently battling problem drinking is the dynamic of silence. Forget about whether a person has a "problem" with drinking, the most trouble seems to happen when people avoid considering or talking about their consumption and retreat into themselves. This leads to destroyed relationships, depression, and in some cases leads further down the rabbit hole of drink.
To the parent, whether or not you will face alcohol-related health problems remains to be seen. The fact that you have clearly thought about your drinking and how it connects to other parts of your life speaks volumes, to me at least. I wish more people would be open and willing to talk about matters like this.