The Zen of Drinking Alone
I agree with everything in this article. Drinking alone is the best, particularly if you like to write while listening to music. The flights of fancy I used to go on!<p>I wish I could still do it, but I found myself waiting for the liquor store to open up at 7:00 am to get rid of the shakes. Then when I tried to stop I couldn&#x27;t. Long story short, after several rehabs, more stints in mental health lockup than I care to remember, and burning through more sponsers in AA that I can count, I finally was able to stop.<p>&quot;Cunning, baffling and powerful&quot; is how Bill Wilson, founder of AA called alcohol for those of us who are &quot;real alcoholics&quot; or if you prefer<p><i>“Everyone knows that dragons don&#x27;t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each non-existed in an entirely different way.”</i><p>— Stanisław Lem<p>p.s. There is a tradition of the Drunken Zen Master but it&#x27;s archaic. We all know better now.