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Subject: A letter to future me
From:    Joacim Melin(21:2/130)
Date:    Mon Sep 07, 2026 11:31

 JM>> "I quit smoking years ago, I'll just have this one cigarette..."
 JM>>
 JM>> Said by many.

 A> I always liked the, "Quitting smoking is easy; I've done it thousands
 A> of times" quote.

 A> That said, with drinking, I wonder how it'd be for someone to cut out
 A> drinking, then get to my level.

 A> Which is, "drink exactly enough to do a taste test, and never enough
 A> to get buzzed".

 A> I know it's unusual, but having the hard limit of, "if there's _any_
 A> risk of getting buzzed, no more alcohol" feels possibly easier, if
 A> prone to red-linining.

 A> But, realistically, if one is a problem drinker, never drinking any is
 A> probably easier to stick with. And it's not like there's any great
 A> point to drinking alcoholic drinks, _especially_ how I drink.

 A> But I like collecting things, and collecting alcohol gives me a
 A> collection that inherently is temporary.

I used to collect Gin. I hade like 20 bottles in my collection and I was proud of it as I'm kind of a Gin snob.  I took my collection, put in a box and placed the box in my storage space and I haven't had a drink since April this year.

I don't have a drinking problem. I, however, have family members who do and I've always been careful about alcohol because of exactly that reason.

The reason I stopped drinking wasn't because of that either though. I simply decided I didn't want to drink alcohol anymore. In my previous relationship my now ex wanted to have a drink or a glass of wine almost every day after work and it became old pretty quick. Every Friday and Saturday night there was drinking. I decided not to join her in that habit after a while and it was interesting how the social dynamic of the relationship changed after that.



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