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Friday Fun Thread for December 9, 2022

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Is getting wasted still worth it to you?

I feel I’ve come to a point where, though I used to love drinking heavily and partying, the trade off is just no longer worth it. The hangovers are now exponentially worse than what I had to deal with in the past. Luckily I don’t deal with three day hangovers though, as I’ve heard others report.

Part of this is probably socially mediated, as I grow older and my peer group binge drinks less and less. That makes getting wasted less fun, and means you bear the risk of acting the fool if you go too far. Also, you can’t commiserate about your hangover with your compatriots.

At this point I don’t really know why I get extremely drunk, ever. I still do it occasionally, but it seems for the past year or two I always regret it. As I said above, the trade off just doesn’t make the cut.

I do still enjoy having a couple beers most nights, and I don’t have a problem with that. But I think my days of heavy drinking, chasing some fuzzily and probably inaccurately remembered fun times from college, are over.

Is getting wasted still worth it to you?

I feel I’ve come to a point where, though I used to love drinking heavily and partying, the trade off is just no longer worth it. The hangovers are now exponentially worse than what I had to deal with in the past. Luckily I don’t deal with three day hangovers though, as I’ve heard others report.

I used to party pretty hard and one reason was because I didn't get hungover at all. Then I started getting small hang-overs in my mid 20s that progressively got worse and graduated to the 3-day kind in my 30s.

It becomes kind of hard justifying drinking hard one evening when you have to spend multiple days being miserable afterwards, especially when moderate drinking doesn't have this problem and is fun as well. Now I try to stick to not drinking more than 5-7 pints (or equivalent) an evening when drinking and it works out well for me.

I do still enjoy having a couple beers most nights, and I don’t have a problem with that. But I think my days of heavy drinking, chasing some fuzzily and probably inaccurately remembered fun times from college, are over.

I feel like there is sometimes some conflation of chasing the buzz of alcohol/partying and chasing youth.

Those times in college probably aren't as misremembered as you think and drinking probably helped make them fun. Partying with your friends when you're young is just hard to beat though, regardless of whether you're drunk or sober.

Chasing the dragon isn't a mistake because "the dragon never existed", it did, it's a mistake because you're not going to catch it again.

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