A Sober Year
It's now been just over a year since I quietly stopped drinking alcohol. I'm not the first person to stop drinking, and I won't be the last, but making the decision not to drink alcohol has given me some insights into alcohol, and how people view it - and how people view those who don't drink it. Before I stopped drinking, I didn't drink that much anyway to be honest. I certainly wasn't someone who drank much in latter years. Back in my University days I could put away a whole bottle of Baileys, a fair amount of vodka and still not have a hangover the following day. It was one of the few benefits of youth. In fact it wasn't until my twenties that all those years of vodka started to catch up with me, and I started to feel what a real hangover could be like. I started to get home at night and lie in bed watching the room spin around me, close my eyes to make it stop only for the spin speed to increase. I just knew then that I'd regret it in