Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. -Pythagoras I love that quote. The reason I love it so much is the bit about reasoning clouded by passion. I believe that passion and passionate people can struggle with logic and reasoning; I put my hands up entirely and say I am a super emotional person and this is why I believe in the struggle. I know that passion clouded the way that I thought and made sense of the world around me and I attribute a lot of this to the fact that I used to drink at times when I needed to be clear-headed the most. For the majority of my adult life, having a drink was synonymous with relaxation, de-stressing, celebrating, mourning, fighting, socialising and the list goes on. If you see a theme in that laundry list of things I associated the reasons to drink with you can probably gather that I drank for a number of reasons and most of them were the for the wrong ones. And to be clear, I have known my entire life the perils of drinking as my mother continuously reminded me that my grandfather… View Post
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