SOBER-EIGNTY

At social gatherings, parties, discos and other kinds of social events people wonder and ask why I don’t drink. It should be normal to find people who choose not to drink, like it’s also normal to find people who love black colour, skirts, a certain kind of music...yesterday I was asked again about my reasons not to drink. I never say all the reason because they seem a bit odd and it’s a bit long to explain...especially to people who is already a bit drunk. Let me share the reasons...so as not to be asked, so as to make you think a bit of the rare side of people.

1-I don’t need alcohol to feel fine, to say what I want, to have fun with people.

2-my stomach doesn’t want alcohol...neither my mood. The sudden poor management of the idea of the Void I suffer from time to time, making me fall in a sharpened nihilism neither opts for alcoholic drinks.

3-I’m not a hedonist...I must see something behind so-called pleasures (including sex)...like mental benefits, health benefits, catharsis, purification to go into such pleasures. That’s rare nowadays...but I don’t care whether I’m understood or not. I can’t help thinking of positive side-effects of some pleasures. I’ve found none in alcohol, or they’re fewer than the negative ones...so no need to drink.

4-I prefer feeling and facing things being sober. It’s also interesting to see the changes in people around, as they go drunk...I don’t want any substance to interfere in my perception...but inner chemical substances and inner processes of the body.

5-My perception sometimes goes for other ways and alters itself when he/she (is perception feminine or masculine) likes. Besides, by laughing and some mental control one can change one’s perception.

6-if I have chosen to life and I’ve been given life, I prefer to keep it in good conditions. Besides I want to have a healthy liver so as to be able to give it to someone when I die, when it happens or when I decide it to happen (that’s another topic I might talk about...death, healthy organs and death and so on).

I am the sober-eign...hehe...but just of my body and senses, and perceptions.