There are probably as many reasons people drink, or drink to excess, as there are people who do it, ranging from “relationship with mother” to “dog passed away” to various other things in between. I myself have been on this Merry-Go-Round of general life bullshit for probably 12 years now, if not longer, with some pockets of success here and there combating it, and a couple of Wednesdays along the way where I was probably blacked out by 4pm. Hey, I’m just being honest.
In trying to solve this important life equation through a mix of different things, one thing I come back to with some degree of regularity is why one would want to be blacked out before darkness falls on a Wednesday. What exactly would drive that?
For a long time, the best quote I had heard was from that Zendaya HBO show, Euphoria, where she says something to the extent of it’s a way to turn your brain off for a while. I like that, and agree with it. I literally woke up at 3:30am this morning in part because I had a dream about a former boss of mine, and in part because I felt I needed to write an article for someone on what post-COVID managerial responsibilities will look like. Neither of those things are important in the least, but they crowd my brain, so sometimes I want to turn off my brain, and I haven’t found the same success, long-term, with exercise or volunteerism or anything else. Working on that.
