Being sober, even for just a short time, has made me reflect on how weird alcohol is, and how strange our culture’s obsession with it is. Alcohol is an incredibly strong psychoactive drug that causes profound changes in someone’s behavior, making them do things they would never normally do, stumble around, slur their speech, say weird or rude shit that they don’t mean, get in fights for no reason, have sex with random people they wouldn’t normally even talk to, not to mention drive drunk and kill people senselessly behind the wheel, etc.. Why do we even have bars in the first place, these places that people can drive to and gather to do this one strong crazy drug??? I don’t know, the whole thing just seems pretty fucked up to me right now. Like it would be bizarre if we had cocaine bars or acid bars, yet alcohol bars are no big deal?? Maybe someday we’ll all wake up as a society and all become sober, and alcohol will end up being seen as this weird thing that people used to do to stupefy themselves and cause mayhem. I honestly think I’m going to stay sober forever because with each passing day I just see alcohol as some bizarre fucked up poison.