For spring break, I paused my semester-long project of not drinking alcohol. Last weekend I headed up to New York to visit friends and we went out to some bars and clubs. It was fun, but... deeply demoralizing. I didn't realize how little I missed berserk drinking and staying up all hours of the night. Not to mention spending hundreds of dollars. Back on the wagon, and couldn't be happier about it. Riding out the snowstorm hitting the eastern seaboard in my house. I have to write a paper on a completely open-ended prompt dealing with constitutional law. The assignment is so open-ended that I can't even pick a topic, even after spending the last day and a half reading. Halp me snowy spring break gods.
Not to claim you’re unoriginal...but I’ve been reading a lot about people quitting alcohol for a while in the last four or five months. Read a column about it this morning, even. Is the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon rearing its head or is there genuinely a trend happening?
It'd be interesting to see in what sense the trend is increasing. I posted about it in January to Hubski though there weren't any bites. My increased awareness happens to coincide entirely with meeting people in their thirties--so slightly older than me--who also gave up alcohol. And it's for random reasons why I've been meeting with slightly older people. Most people my age or younger are still entirely balls to the wall with drinking.