Fair point, I made the same observation in my usage of it. Though, I wasn't conscious enough of it to make that point, so thanks! Here's my story about that ob

Fair point, I made the same observation in my usage of it. Though, I wasn't conscious enough of it to make that point, so thanks! Here's my story about that observation (I think we should be a bit more open about this, and since I'm Dutch, at least my government won't pursue me for the following story). At one point, I was taking a bit too much weed. And I was shocked, I smoked maybe once per week at best and it was more likely that I was smoking twice per month. This has been my peak in my life. Yet, I still felt really messed up by it, what gives? It turned out, that I didn't count all the nights of alcohol: 1. Every week 1 time with my GF's family. We would get very tipsy on average. 2. Every week 1 time with friends and/or GF. We would get tipsy on average. 3. Every week 3 to 4 random beers in between. It also turns out that I didn't count the occassional psychedelic trip, once every 4 months. It also turns out that I didn't factor in my occassional sleep deprivation. It's kind of like calculus: a lot of a little bit is a whole surface, and this was a whole surface of misery and the worst offender was alcohol, closely followed by weed. The issue was: cutting down on alcohol. Cutting down on weed was easy, very very easy because I also found out when I might want to use it and those occassions happen rarely. Cutting down on occassional legal psychedelics (again, The Netherlands) was also easy. I'm slowly fixing my sleep issues as well. Cutting down on alcohol was a lot tougher. I've managed to cut my consumption down by 50%. My other forms of drug consumption are cut down by 90%! It takes (and still takes) a lot of effort to just do 50% with alcohol. I have to say no, when people enjoy and smile and I just want it too. Fortunately, I quite like my sober self, and have to remind myself how being very tipsy feels (I find it quite unpleasant). So that helps, but I find it quite hard and that worries me. It would've been easy if we didn't have an alcoholic culture.