I only like to drink when I'm happy.
I never understood those who "drink to forget" or "chase the blues away", as my understanding of trying to obliterate your superego with alcohol is that it just lets the stuff you were stewing about in the first place come to the fore, and the few brain cells you have left tend to fixate on it, like a dog on a bone.
An angry or maudlin drunk is no fun for anyone, and especially for the stupid-assed drunk him or herself.
I could see your line of thinking, and I guess everyone will have their own style:
me?
my primary style for drinking is when I am in a good mood.
But I also drink, not to forget, but to recover.
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Say it was a really stressful day, or I'm stressing out and that's having an impact on me during the evening (say, trying to do homework. Or, I can feel it in my neck and/or back and just don't feel comfortable, because of the stress). Or, if I let it build up, a really, really bad week.
Alcohol is recovery. And hell, it literally does the physiological work. It relaxes the CNS, and if it's my body that is bothering me, that helps force the muscles to relax.
But yeah, trying to get rid of bad feelings, you can't approach alcohol like that. That's asking for trouble too. And hell, for the "recovery" aspect, all I need is a good drink or two. My full-strength Caucasians do the trick for me.
😀 1 Part Vodka, 1 Part Kahlua Especial (70p), 1 or 2 parts milk. The 70proof Kahlua is the trick, versus the weaker regular Kahlua.
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