This is a difficult, controversial and painful topic. But I want to try to discuss it. I can’t say something great and sparkling about myself, so I’ll refer to a fairly sincere (among a heap of hypocrisy and moralizing on this issue) speech by a mathematician, doctor of sciences, Alexei Savvateev. (The video is at the end of the post.)
36 years of my life were very closely associated with alcohol. And I was out of the game five minutes before the waterfall, about. I swam, swam, the river is getting steeper, I am a water tourist, I "shot back." Shot in front of the waterfall, apparently. I quit drinking alcohol four years ago. I can’t say the phrase: “And I advise you the same.” Because I've seen people who drink just fine. But this is not my case.
I can give advice, as an old alcoholic with great experience. If you, even in 10% of cases (not in 100%, and not even in 70%) you do not stop, but drink until you fall under the table, then you need to tie.
For many years I have entertained myself that I can completely control myself, it’s just that sometimes for some reason I don’t control myself, but this happens rarely, right? Usually I sit down at the table, drink a glass or two, the fifth, the seventh… well, I got drunk, I swear at the whole Ivanovo… All passions follow alcohol. Alcohol, like a steam locomotive dragging cars behind it: fornication, obscene language and everything else. However, quite often I would stop, get up, say, "Well, I'm going." Went home, slept. The next morning I said to myself: “You see, you are not an alcoholic!”. Often I could stop, but not always. Once every two or three months there was some kind of supercatastrophe. I did something completely unacceptable, I won’t even list. In my old age I will write a thriller book “Practice notfree travel" (my answer ).
I dropped out of the game and haven't even drunk champagne for four years. I have a true surrogate. Instead of beer I drink nonalcoholic beer, it's disgusting, yes. But it reminds of some feelings of a holiday, it sets you up for the fact that you can celebrate with those around you who drink. Ginger instead of vodka. If you mix ginger with lemon very hard, 10 times stronger than usual ...
Bach! and you right aaaaaaa!!! .. oh ... And it really feels like you drank vodka. What you need.
And in third place - гранатовый сок instead of wine. Good real pomegranate juice, Crimean or Azerbaijani. Juice is quite expensive, but alcohol is more expensive.
Three pages in the book where I was a co-author, "“, about how many ways you can get to vomit by interspersing drinks. Here you need to take 500 grams of vodka equivalent. You have several drinks of different strengths in different volumes. How many ways to do this, given that order matters. Beer after vodka or vodka after beer is very important. All alcoholics understand me perfectly.
In the class of combinatorial problems, the order is important. For a very long time I could not come up with an interpretation of why order is important in mathematics, but I came up with it, this alcoholic interpretation. And so Andrei Mikhailovich Raigorodsky, the main author of the book (together with Shkredov), included me as the third author for this interpretation.
But in general, alcohol, goodbye, friend, goodbye.
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