The Brutal Truth: Drinking Makes You A Loser

You don’t know you’re fighting for your life because you’re an idiot and you’ve lost the ability to see what a complete and total loser you have become.

You think you’re just fighting for another drink because that’s the only movie playing in your head. There’s a bloody loud voice that’s screaming insistently in brutally blunt language “Drink!” “I want a drink!” “Will somebody please just give me a f*****ing drink!” Too sad. You chose to ignore reality and the giant warning signs along the path to the bottle of booze AKA poison. You forgot to read the small print that said, 100% guaranteed “End Your Life Hack.”

Come on, let’s get honest here. You did ignore them, didn’t you? You chose to get drunk. You chose to have a hangover, you chose to wash, rinse and repeat and to become an alcoholic.

Was that a little harsh?

I don’t think it was. I don’t think it was harsh enough. What I really should have said was wake up, you bloody idiot! What the hell are you doing to yourself? You are choosing alcohol over life. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, good about what you are doing. Sliding into that bottle every night is just a lack of imagination on your part and a huge act of cowardice!

Wake up and grow a pair of balls for god’s sake. Develop the self-care skills you need to change your life and deal with problems in a way that doesn’t kill you and poison the lives of everyone around you.

Stop telling yourself that your life sucks. Get out of the cage of fear and get some real help and real support. Find some people you can trust. People who don’t drink and who can see the world from a different perspective.

Don’t hang around with the enablers. The people who are drinkers.

Drinkers can’t give you any guidance. They drink for god’s sake!

They can’t be honest with you because they don’t want to be honest with themselves. This is the brutal reality. You can’t trust them. They can’t tell you that you are drinking too much because then they would have to question their own drinking habits. They have a secret, vested interest in keeping you a drinker. It makes them feel better about themselves and their habits. They can only be superior if there is someone below them. You are that someone! The dirt beneath their feet.

You make them feel normal and superior. They don’t want you to change because then they would have to look at their own drinking habits and no one wants to do that!

Whether you like it or not, life is all about hierarchies. Other drinkers need you to have a drink problem. Hell, they secretly want you to have a big drink problem so they can maintain a higher position on the ladder.

They need alcoholics so that they can distinguish themselves and pretend they don’t have a problem with alcohol. That’s why all drinkers need the dirty, smelly guys in the streets clutching their sad little bottle; the only cold comfort they have to stave off the harsh realities of life.

The down and outs — God bless ’em. How we love them for being in the gutter and clutching their bottle of strong liquid meths. How superior they make us feel. They keep the whole damn pyramid scheme propped up. If it wasn’t for them, the heavy drinkers and the binge drinkers would have no one to look down on and everything would get a little more scary, a little more nasty and a little more real.

So take a good long look at the person in the mirror.

Then take a deep breath, thank them for all the valuable lessons they have taught you and then say goodbye to them because you’ve got work to do and it means you have to kick alcohol into touch.

Walk away, pick up your pen and paper and write these words:

I forgive myself for not being the person I wanted me to be. I forgive myself and set myself free.

I’m saying goodbye to fear and hello to curiosity because there’s something I really want to know. How much better can it get?

Stop reading now and go take some positive action. Clean up your life, dump the booze and give yourself permission to start again.

Don’t worry about failing. Just remember all the times you have found yourself puking your guts up into a toilet bowl or in the street, or nursing the hangover from hell. If you can survive all of that shit then you can get back up, try again and keep going. If you fall off the wagon, get back on it pronto.

Remember: You got this!

“The only person who can change your drinking habit is you!”

Live Strong, Love & Get A Sober!