Alcohol makes you ignorant

Caring about the others and yourself... Being able to help when help is needed … Being aware of the peoples feeling around you… simply care. I am sitting on the place where is the group of people who actually care who are aware and believe in better world. I am sitting and thinking… What a paradox! What made me think about this is story of a friend. While listening to the music and drinking Bosnian Coffee we started to think about the times in the life when one feels very grateful. So I listened… His story started on a prom. Of course this is the par where it´s easy to imagine a bunch of crazy teenagers who measure the amount of fun with amount of the alcohol in the blood. At least this is the case with most of them. My friend said this was one of the two times he drank alcohol. He took some at the prom. Afterwards, the crowd moved to another place. And yes, he took more. The reason why he decided to leave the place and took his car to go home is something that would determine you as an unstable and not mentally healthy person in some countries, but I guess common sense is unknown word in alcohols dictionary. He left the place and decided to drive a bit more through the city. Again why? Well, I guess if we know the answer to these questions no harm would be done. On the street he saw three friends and offered them a lift home. He drove one of them and the other two stayed to drive around. The rest of the story is followed by the driving out of the city and letting the others two to drive without the driving license. The highlight of the night was the moment when they were supposed to go home and my friend decided to drive once again… That was the “safer” alternative. The road, speed driving, loosing control of the car and almost crashing into the tree. They were lucky and only stuck between two trees. But what is special about this story? We’ve heard thousands of them already. We’ve all seen American movies on this topic and we totally get used to this. It’s normal, it happens. What I really wanted to share are the thoughts of my friend and me after he told me the story. He said he thought about the damage on the car first. He didn’t see his girlfriend somewhere on the way. He forgot about the other two people that were in the car… “You don’t care about the others, only about yourself,” he said.”If somebody needed my help that night, I wouldn’t be able to help.” You are alone and individual in alcohol’s conscious and you create yourself the material for regretting afterwards. He realized how happy all three of them were and the day after was the day he said “thank you” many times. You don’t want to stop caring because that’s one of the things that make you human. Substitution of the mind and consciousness that you get with alcohol is only temporary and can cost a lot. My friend made me think and realize there are plenty of choices one can choose. I care, and he does too. Lesson learned. Still grateful!