Drinking has lost it's mojo

[Swede]

Got my mojo working too, has been for a while now. A diagnosis after a doctors appointment helped, gave me an explanation why I've been feeling the way I have. I still got what I got but knowing is better than not knowing. Not knowing and just feeling like shit blows. Mental shit is heavy shit. Ya, and Bukowski helps too, with the stress.

[whiskeyprick]

Listen to some Ryan Bingham, his depression makes my life seem like a never-ending popsicle stand. Prol why my love for sad songs is enhanced by booze.

[whiskeyprick]

Oh, glad to hear you are doing better too,

[coqui_chris]

This thread still sucks

[Surreal]

Yeah, but these two posts are transcendent.....

The scent of stale Miller beer in a bar when you walk in.
The sting on the lips that comes with that first kiss of high-proof Bourbon.
The stunning perspective on the human condition that arrives after the third round.
The soaring laughter that comes after a easy aquaintance has delivered a joke.
The sexuality of a once demure partner opened by the bottle.
The soundness of a blackout sleep.
The smashing rebuke of a heavy hangover.

I could go on and on in this vein; over 40 years of drinking hasn't resulted in boredom for me, limited though my imagination is.
Magic is in the moment and every moment is different, even if you're getting smashed on the same swill in the same place every night.

From time to time, any activity we love can lose its magic. The world into which we discovered it may have changed and passed away. A love for painting can fade when the muse becomes faded. I doesn't mean you've lost your love for the activity but that it no longer holds the same desperate importance to you. It's not a bad or good thing. It just is.

You may find that you feel a need to keep up the boozing because you owe it or yourself to stay the course. Never let a habit you no longer feel an affinity for enslave you. They say booze captures people, and for some it may be true, but for others it liberates us. It has liberated you. Whether you need to continue some arbitrary allegiance to it is up to you.

Should you choose to move on to other things, feel free to do so. Know that the tender taste of that first beer, first whisky will be here waiting for you should you wish to revisit the hauntings of the past.

Booze is not an obligation but a avocation that you can take up or not as you choose. You won't loose your boozer credentials for not getting pissed up on the next Thursday night. I'd imagine that should the mood take you, you could still drink most of your mates right under the table even after an extended dry period.

Liberate yourself my friend from anything you feel obligated to except yourself.

Of course, the next round is on you when you come around.

To Smatter and Judge for making this steaming pile of a thread well worthwhile.