PARALLEL WORLDS
What is the point of life in soberness? Are we happier like this? I feel I should bet to differ. Most drugs suck; some are expensive; others create a high dependance. Alcohol seems like a good alternative. Prices start from 0 and the sky is the limit, right? Bliss is relative because everyone is unique and different.
Is sanity any good? We all experience some sort of neurosis, although there are those who have the curse or gift of surpassing sanity. It can feel good and you can be happy about it due to the many possibilities. You see things differently than the rest do and everything goes. There is a dark world out there that is attractive. In this place we find drugs and such, which can make you feel a wide range of things. It's a mischievous game where you mess with your mind and alter it, along with your body state.
It is overwhelming when you have been beyond the influence of drugs and alcohol. Not right then and there, but afterwards. Catches you without notice; you don't expect it. It's unexplainable. Shivering, shaking, with fever, photo-sensitive, can't stand people. Drop alcohol but you end up needing a replacement to get addicted to. One of the main reasons to find yourself in a disturbed world is to get away from pain; avoid dealing with it; bring out your repressed emotions; enjoy the numbness; and maybe forget that you once wanted to end your existence. Now, now, I am not generalising, but I'm sure there are people who feel this. And there are way more reasons to engage in this behaviour.
So we have 3 perspectives:
1) People who don't feel the need or desire to drink
2) Those who drink and have self-control
3) Those who no longer have self-control and can end up in the worse situations, yet they keep going for it as soberness is too much to handle.
Pick one and start from there.