I don’t know if anybody will care about this nor am I particularly confident that sharing this information on an international platform will not result in me never being eligible for legitimate employment, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take. After reading this guy’s column on Vice, I’m questioning my life choices.
You should read it because it’s funny and reflective, but for now it’s pretty much this guy’s rendition of four stories that explain why he has made the responsible and totally voluntary decision to give up drinking. Yeah. Like not actually ever have alcohol. The main theme present in all of the vignettes is lack of self control and not knowing one’s limits. A common theme for many people I know at this stage of their lives.
It only took this guy four big take-a-look-back-and-have-a-good-hard-look-at-yourself moments in his life to actually have a word with himself and have a DIY intervention. I am 20-years-old and if I tallied up all the similar moments I have experienced/witnessed/participated in/encouraged the same way Chris Gethard did, I would be born again six times over. I’m not exaggerating… I’m talking passing out on trains, public crying, getting into random people’s cars and demanding to be driven to Brunswick for $10, taking Krispy Kremes from 7/11 shit.
Should I quit drinking? Should I quit my life and check into rehab and write a biography about my life lessons and mistakes and go on The Today Show?
I still know now what I knew then. Drinking is bad, it makes you do stupid shit, and the only real solace it offers is that if you get drunk enough you might not remember what you did. Whatever though, that was funny and I am very responsible now, ask anyone. I go to university, I am middle class. I think I am probably the most normal person I know, I’d be a great sample subject. But the most alarming thing is I never took five minutes to think about how bad these things might be until this afternoon reading Gethard, because crazy shit like that is pretty much standard. What culture am I in? What horrible culture is this going to become in the next ten years?
I think I am going to keep drinking because me and limits are friends and we meet all the time and have a mutually respectful relationship. The worst property damage I’ve ever done is spilling Jaegermeister on my friends keyboard and now the letter B doesn’t work. I might give it up if I burn something or get naked in public.
I hope this column changes somebody’s life.
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