It isn't Monday. Or Sunday. Or even "hump day." It is saturday.
Why?
Only because it is relentless.
Only because it used to be the most hungover day of the week.
Because I only knew how to relax by being hungover.
Because I only knew how to not keep propelling myself forward into something, whatever, by drinking fiendishly.
Because I was obsessively egotistical, and Saturday was a test to my ego. Which friends would call? Who would deem me important? Who would I deem?
There's a cure to friends calling, or not calling. Either way. Drink.
See how easy?
And what else? Only this: Alcoholics are manically self-absorbed, or depressingly self-absorbed, or both. Almost everyone is, so this isn't a huge lift, but alcoholics more so, because we've purposefully stopped emotional growth, deciding how we want to live with every sip.
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