When we decide to stop drinking, we have to do it together. Let's not forget that drinking has, often, become a proxy for being with other people, for being social, for being, in short, healthy. If we're out there, we're not reclusive. If we're not reclusive, we're okay. If we're okay, we can keep going forward, secure in our footing. I've become aware that a lot of you are drying to stop drinking, and that, even though I'm often flagrantly off topic, at least some of what I've said by way of not drinking might have been a bit helpful at times. I don't ordain myself helpful, of course. But I do want to have the courage to face tomorrow fully cognizant and, knowing that I can never be even remotely aware of everything, still have the courage to face the amorphous "it" that is, at least at times, unbearable.
So to stop drinking, we have to have tremendous courage and be very very serious.
And yet.
To stop drinking, we must not take the unbearable world too seriously, all the time.
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