From everyone's posts it looks like drinking helps us to feel. I have to agree with this. When I begin drinking I feel in touch with myself. As I get a little tipsy I can really feel my body and every movement it makes. I feel in contact with it. I also feel expansive inside rather then closed and constricted. But as the drunk gets deeper I lose touch with it again, I can't feel my body any more and the expansion becomes foggy and that is when I start doing stupid things. If only I could stop at one or two drinks when things are feeling good but I can't. When the alcohol is there I HAVE to keep drinking.

Then there seems to be the opinion that it is important not to drink at all because when one does it leads to bad things. This I agree with too. If I drink I don't stop until the bottle is empty. Luckily I don't go to the bar that often. Last time I did I drank until I puked. It was my birthday so everyone else was buying my drinks so the bottle didn't go empty (I didn't run out of money). So I drink until I threw up. Sigh.
Carrie

<font color=blue>If you have two dollars, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will feed your body and the flowers will feed your soul."--Arabic Saying