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Every sober night ends exactly the same. You get tired, you say goodbye to the people still staying out, you go home, drink water, and go to bed. Drunken, joyf
by codq 5y ago
Every sober night ends exactly the same. You get tired, you say goodbye to the people still staying out, you go home, drink water, and go to bed.
Drunken, joyful reverie without inhibition is living poetry. Sobriety is admirable, important, and just. But no, you did not 'do all of those things'.
- beecafe 5y agoOnly if your sober friends are also boring homebodies
- akshayverma99 5y agoThis is what I wanted to say but could never find the words
- Ericson2314 5y agoIf no one had the drunken outlet, how might the inhibited baseline change?
- djdjfhsje33edh 5y agoI disagree that it's true for all people. When I was young and in college with mild social anxiety, yes, alcohol was an excellent social lubricant and made for much more enjoyable nights. But now that I'm in my 30's and comfortable being open in just about any social situation, I don't find that alcohol adds much. I can lower my inhibitions on my own.
- reustle 5y agoThere are a lot of assumptions in this reply that are absolutely not true for plenty of folks. More of a summarization of your sober friends, maybe.
- openknot 5y agoOr staying late at a party and speaking with the last few people to leave, really opening up to them. The way life turned out though, I'm not in touch with any of those people anymore. The idea of >"You get tired, you say goodbye to the people still staying out, you go home, drink water, and go to bed." sounds amazing, because I have energy to do personally rewarding things the next day without feeling wiped out and hungover.
- smileysteve 5y agoSome people are extroverts, get charged meeting new people, doing exciting things, get endorphin rushes dancing until the sun rises. There are sober people at burning man.
- smileysteve 5y agoAnecdotally, we're on hacker news, none of us should be that removed from hackathons where mid 20 year olds stay up if not all night until 2am and start by 8. Anecdotally, at 35 I still sometimes wake up at 2 and stay up until sunrise thinking of cool new ideas.
- oh_sigh 5y agoWell if that is the standard, alcohol pales in comparison with MDMA.
- steve1977 5y ago> You get tired, you say goodbye to the people still staying out, you go home, drink water, and go to bed. Sounds like the perfect ending to a nice evening, where's the problem? Fear of missing out?