Short monologue (YouTube) urging listeners to re-evaluate their relationship with alcohol. The speaker describes personal dependence, negative effects on mood and sleep, and frames abstaining as life-changing and broadly beneficial. The piece emphasizes alcohol’s harms (anxiety, depression, disrupted sleep, carcinogenic risk) and the speaker’s ongoing struggle to stop.
You left the tribe. Alcohol is the only drug we have to justify not taking. I knew I wasn't an alcoholic. I was looking forward more and more to that evening wine. Oh, how am I going to get through the day? I felt like the light inside me was starting to go out. Alcohol robs us of that. Alcohol absolutely exacerbates anxiety and depression. It's a level one carcinogenic. Causes anxiety, it disrupts your sleep, it makes you feel crap. Why are you fighting for it? Everything in my life is better when I don't drink. And so why do I keep going back to it? It could actually be the most life changing decision you ever make.
