Anyone else drunk?

Question

Does alcohol free you from your worried self?

Answer 1

I'm drunk as hell and I don't care who knows it!!!


(did I just say that out loud?)

Answer 2

The only kind of drunk I experience in my more mature years is the ecstatic "drunk with Love" for humanity, this world, and all of creation. The wonder of it all is staggering (perhaps a pun here?). The worries I used to have are more and more being absorbed into this state of liberation and happiness. Alcohol, I found, was an escape...much like drugs (both prescribed and recreational) that delay or mask the primary cause (in this case, "worry"). As I journied along life's variety of experiences, I found no solace or resolution through "masking" the problem by using remedies outside myself. I found, instead, that the worry or problem arose out of my vulnerable, unexamined ego-personality, which was controlled by the societal "conditioning" of my mind. Eventually, after many years of blaming everything outside myself for my woes, I began to look inward and see that in every moment of my past it was I who had made every "reactive" choice that brought my suffering. As I observed the correlations between my ego, my choices, and the unhappy outcomes that produced constant fretting and worry, I began to shed my ego. Through meditation and much questing, I am finding freedom from worry because I am experiencing more and more love of myself and others; this can only be done by allowing Love ( the motivating life essence) to flow through me out into the world. I call this Source, which is my source. I am Sirius

Answer 3

No and No..it clouds an already clouded Mind and makes wise choice even more difficult..the answer to fear and worry is understanding the causes of the fear, in order to do this requires a sharp Mind able to think even when fear strikes..fear is not the problem it is only a symptom..often what we fear is quite rightly feared, an enraged tiger is not to be ignored..the bite of a rattler should be rightly feared..yet there are some fears which are unfounded..the fear of ridicule when our actions are wise, the fear of retribution when we have not caused such anger..the fear of loss when what we will lose is meaningless..to understand such unfounded fear is to understand how these can be overcome..often they are a learned phenomenon..for example I fear heights..yet I did not always fear heights, at some point I was taught to hold this fear..these unfounded learned fears can be unlearned..and by learning their basis we can undo much which holds sway over our consciousness..

A Buddhist..

Answer 4

Alcohol Does free me from my worried self. However, I think that 7:30AM is a Little Too early.

Hope you're hang-over... less. :-)

Answer 5

Someone else is drunk.

Alcohol does not free me from my worried self.

Answer 6

I am allergic to alcohol or the hops in it. Oh how I wish I could have a beer with a burger.

Answer 7

For many it seems, being drunk is a reason to be on-line. It frees nothing, it possesses.

Answer 8

Alcohol is a band aid.
The fix is introspection and facing the issues honestly.

Answer 9

Here's a toast you can make:

"Here's to alcohol, the solution to.....(and cause of)....all of life's problems..."

Answer 10

not really worried, but soitenly helps me wind down. for me, wine - the nectar of the gods.