To the fullest

I have always been one to love life to its fullest. No questions asked, life can be taken into ones arms, held on to for years, and made the best of with the right attitude or personality, if you will. I never thought that I would be doing the things I am doing in life right now, but I do not regret them...things that can enhance the most fun of times, make you closer to one another, and even take those without personality and develop one for them. I drink, needless to say, and I like it. Well, by liking it I mean that the effect of it is enjoyable, not the taste of it. I will never really be one to find the taste of any alcohol as a flavorful beverage. I hear it is an acquired taste, but I believe that it is an acquired experience. It's like when people do drugs...they do it to feel a certain way and just accept the prerequisites and repercussions to such a thing. Not that I am putting alcohol up there with morphine addiction or heroin, but similar concept. Anywho, I like to drink because of a couple of reasons. One is that I could never become addicted, and don't really comprehend how a wide load of college kids and drunkies can drink every day or night, do it heavily, and want to feel shitty the next morning. I think it takes a great deal of thought to understand why we as humans do certain things that are out of the ordinary, such as taking in substances to achieve desired effects. Once you understand that, you can realize that you don't have to get extremely "wasted" all the time to feel good. You learn that drinking is a social activity, such as smoking cigarettes, eating at a nice restaraunt, going to an amusement park. You really don't do things like that without at least someone else...and if you do, then you haven't tasted the good flavors that life has to offer and felt the buzz from taking life in wholly. Shit, you can drink a couple of beers, know where you are in the "feel good" spectrum and tell yourself that it will last for a couple of hours and that if you get any drunker, you will have to call off to work, maybe lose your job, feel like shit all morning and maybe puke to come back to reality. So from this, another reason is that I can have fun with it, be responsible, and not endanger myself or anyone. It really comes to the responsibility aspect of the discussion to prove that doing things that change your perspectives, alter your moods, and slant your reality requires a great GREAT deal of responsibility, and if you dont have it, DON'T DO IT. It's ok if you can't control yourself on things like that. But don't risk your life's goals, dreams, and sanity to prove that. I've seen many people drop out of college because they let it consume them. It also relates to a dependency issue for some because they have nothing else in their life to be happy for. And with that I retreat back to my previous statement that I have harped on in numerous entries, that life should be exalted rather than neglected, find something in your life that makes you truly and AUTHENTICALLY happy and nothing else will be able to break through to you and take over. You are the keeper of your own hapiness and destiny. You can be lonely and still be happy. You can drink and not have to risk your hapiness. You can do whatever you please, as long as you find hapiness in your life. But be responsible, and proliferate your hapiness for as long as possible, because life is too short, enjoy it while it lasts, for tomorrow may not be. "Live for today as if it were your last, dream for tomorrow as if it will be your next"