I Drink therefore I'am

As I sit here inside one of CP’s pubs ,I look at the sign which reads ‘liquor is not be served to folks below 25 years of age’ and I find myself calculating the amount of money these pubs would make off me till I actually reach that legit age.

The past few days have been a binge-riot ,three days of non stop drinking booze of every kind. I never used to ‘drink before’. I was a ‘simple’ man and then it happened. ‘What happened ?’ they ask . I say ‘Oh nothing , you know just life, love, death ; the usual stuff ’. ‘You are weak they say .At first , you show the audacity of being an atheist and then you take refuge behind something so unholy as alcohol for your sins and doings’.

I politely nod my head and reply ‘yes, my wise man, you are right ,I am a sinner and , alcohol maybe man’s worst enemy but as our gods rightly said love your enemy, I think I am just a humble servant doing my part.

So why do we drink ?

We drink to celebrate, mourn, remember and, often, to forget. It can mean different things to all of us but it is anything but a depressant . The young and the old are both relieved from the straining and often nagging sense of obligation that ruins so much of our lives and that worried feeling of what if’s and what not’s that stings inside so much . People say it’s just a waste of time. Well I rather waste my time with a gin and tonic any day watching Mash or with Steinbeck in my other hand than do what these savant like creatures do.

We don’t wish to cheat on our loneliness by drinking like Kafka once put it but we believe that being lonely alone is a greater crime.

We, the people, live our lives like aliens among our own brothers where the only thing common to both is our desire to retreat from each other.It is often over a drink we meet with our old friends and enemies and forget our grudges even if it is for a fleeting moment.

I think and that is my personal belief that alcohol may just be the greatest discovery of all time. Just the Like the funny man David Berry once famously said ‘Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza’.