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Snotfish
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Drinking an unhealthy amount to live better?
#18827218 - 09/11/13 10:45 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've gone through a couple.. or few stretches of alcoholism. If I'm "getting drunk" it's usually 10-15 drinks and a lot of the time this leads to blacking out. I use kratom daily so the hangovers from this are mended almost immediately. Recently I've been staying away from alcohol.
In my new sober state I am much more calculative and feel less groggy in the morning, but some of my passions aren't there because I feel like I'm not living life the way I should be.
When I was drinking every night I felt that I was getting a full experience of what was going on and I was constantly writing music, painting, and doing poetry. Now I feel like I'm sort of being boring by waking up clear headed and the urge to do many of the things I want to do just isn't there.
I'm curious, any alcoholics do some of their best work in a bend? Along with this, do you feel that the drive is gone when you are being clean?
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Re: Drinking an unhealthy amount to live better? [Re: Snotfish]
#18827506 - 09/11/13 12:10 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ever since I had to quit weed like 3 months ago because of probation, I feel less imaginative and creative, and music doesn't sound as good. I have less unique thoughts and feel like I'm becoming part of the dumb population, the kind of people that don't know what LSD is or... I don't even know. hah
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Snotfish
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Re: Drinking an unhealthy amount to live better? [Re: thirtygoats]
#18827709 - 09/11/13 01:01 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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That's a large part of it for me as well. Just replace the pot with liquor (because I still occasionally smoke) and I also just feel more square I guess. If I'm not putting my head out there I'm just safe and bored and this plays a huge part in me getting any artwork done.
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Re: Drinking an unhealthy amount to live better? [Re: Snotfish] 1
#18827782 - 09/11/13 01:20 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I know what you mean. I would get all kinds of fucked up and it definitely inspired me to create. Now, if it's ten pm and i'm sober, I'll probably just go to bed. It is pretty lame. BUT- for all the times I drank a bottle of wine and blasted music and was super inspired to paint all night, I sure woke up a lot of times to a canvas covered in pure shit. It was nice in a way because I was then inspired to fix what I had done, and there certainly have been times where what came out was awesome, but you have to recognize not just the inspiration, but what comes out of it. In the mean time i've felt inspired to paint not fucked up, and lo and behold what comes out is better. Is it because of purer inspiration? Because I can paint a straight line? Or did I need all of those nights of not giving a fuck to build up my skill? I was worried when I realized I felt like I needed to be high to paint. It was freeing to discover that I could do one without the other. There is a lot of inspiration to draw from out there, don't be afraid to explore it in all states of mind.
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