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And no, “social occasions” don’t include going to my family’s for dinner, or having friends or family at home who are not currently drinking.
As I said last post, I’ve already started this one, last Monday. This should be mostly easy… for a while.
The problem is not that I “crave” alcohol, as an alcoholic would do; the problem is that I seem to have got it into my head, since years ago, that a great meal needs a great wine (or an average one, if a great one is not affordable), and that I need alcohol in my system to enjoy several types of situations — typically social ones.
Of course, that’s a dependency — even if not a physical one –, which makes it a very, very bad idea. I must be able to both enjoy a good meal and enjoy myself with either friends or strangers without having to drink a couple of glasses first.
Besides, without drinking I sleep much better, and feel much more awake during the day. The days even seem longer — which may actually have been one of my reasons for drinking, since I often feel like time passes too slowly, which obviously causes boredom. But making the days “become” shorter is absolutely the wrong way to solve that; if I need more things to do so that I don’t get bored, that’s what I should search for — or create.
