>>4268
>beat alcoholism
I did this. Found there's really no point unless you have children or at least a meaningful career. Didn't mind the absence of drinking but the boredom on Friday and Saturday became too much to bare. Realized how empty our lives are and the only useful thing to do was read up on the past.
You don't beat alcoholism. You just replace it with something. It's a lifestyle change that, in my humble opinion, the world doesn't deserve. This plane of existence is ruled by violence and corruption. I'm ashamed to live in the same conscious band as some of the the filth that we share this world with. My will is to do good here and help people but I refuse to not resent this horrible place. This world is beauty rended incarnate. For all the poor souls that sought refuge from that reality I will raise my glass and, in my own quiet stoic solidarity, have a drink.