walkinglikesnoopy

Since I’ve quit my so-called ‘day job’ and have been working from home as a writer, I’ve developed an easy routine.  I get up, eat breakfast, drive my husband to work, and then hop on the Treadmill for an hour.  I then eat lunch and proceed to drink my face off in the afternoons.  I always sober up around dinner time and never get a hangover because I go to bed sober and with plenty of clear fluid in me.  But still, I consume a fair amount of alcohol near daily.  Now, I’m not sure if I think this is a bad thing necessarily, but I have noticed that it is somewhat acceptable for a writer (or other creative type) to de dependent on, or abuse, alcohol or drugs.

It’s a widely known fact that most/all of the great British and American novelists were raging Alcoholics or Opiate addicts.  Some people even attribute their success to their substance abuse.  I don’t rally believe that alcohol makes people write better, but I do know that it diminishes inhibitions and being creative is all about doing fun, exciting things with your medium.  So, maybe it is easier to access the unknown recesses of your mind with a Martini or two.

Now, regardless of whether or not substance abuse stimulates creativity is not the question I am trying to ask.  What I was completely surprised to find out, was that NONE of my friends or family seem to have a problem with the amount that I am drinking.  Not one person has suggested that maybe I should curb it, or stop all together.  It really has become socially acceptable to get blitzed every afternoon as long as you don’t stay blitzed all night and wake up with a hangover the next day.  I am sure that if I was drinking the morning, or suffering from serial-hangovers, that some of these people would have something to say.

So that right there is the question:  Do you believe that it is socially acceptable to drink to excess daily, as long as you sober up before bed and remain hangover-less?

<3Mandy