Three Small Things to Do Today to Change Your Life
Eat Blueberries – They have a super high amount of anti-oxidants which absorb free radicals (which are mostly rogue oxygen) swimming around in your body causing havoc on your cells with their polar characteristics, disrupting your DNA and aging you. And they’re tasty.
Dance by Yourself– Enjoy yourself and take a break from homework to get up to dance and sing, all alone in your room. It's exhilarating.
* I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Take More than 20 Minutes to Make Yourself Dinner – whether this means baking yourself enchiladas, or pulling out the rice cooker, I promise you’ll feel better eating it, if you took the time to prepare it. Hmm..a blueberry pie would be perfect...
Alcohol Continued:
I have had three experiences in my life, which I can distinctly relate to alcohol. I'm not going to talk about them. I'm simply going to say that each has had some impact on my life, and changed who I am. But I could say that about anything really. What I can simply reflect is that had these experiences not occurred, I'd probably be better off. I can't say this for everyone. I can however ask you all to share a story in which someone intoxicated affected you in some way. Were they a friend? A family member? I'm also fairly sure that most of you have had positive experiences or at least humorous ones, interacting with the inebriated. So I’d linger on to ask, which out ways the other? – the positive experiences or negative ones?
Some research just for the curious - . Alcohol is a depressant. It is chemically formed when something ferments, instead of using oxygen to respirate. Thus to make alcohol beverages you bottle the organic compound without the presence of oxygen, i.e. the hops, barley, wheat, corn, cactus, etc. depending on the type of alcohol. The alcohol that we drink is Ethanol, which is C2H6O, a polar molecule. In large doses, it is a poison. Its LD50 in rats is 10,300 mg/kg. Beer is the third most popular drink, after water and tea, worldwide. The consumption of alcohol is found in every civilization and culture, from hunter-gathers to technological powerhouses. Alcohol increases insulin production and can result in low blood sugar. In small doses it is found to lower the risk of coronary heart disease, however up to 24% of Dementia is also found to be caused by long-term moderate drinking, or short-term binge drinking as long as this drinking took place before the dementia began. Alcohol damages the dendrites in the brain, which is perhaps the scariest fact in my opinion. The dendrites are the nerve powerhouses, if you will, that receive and transmit signals along giant pathways in the body. Thus, alcohol can inhibit your body’s internal communication permanently.
If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. ~Unknown - as seen on a bumper sticker
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~Author Unknown
So what do you have to say?
Depression:
Why, for some reason, am I pairing depression with alcohol and drinking? Because it’s a clear fact that depressed people drink and drinking causes depressed people. Maybe more people would drink responsibly if there were less depressed people? Let’s hear what you have to say about depression. Is it a clinical mental illness? Is it a mood? Is it an emotion? I have to say I’m strongly opinionated about this topic. So what’s it to you?
Sincerely,
Sarah
I drove my parents and their friends home from the airport the other day. I was driving because everyone else was drunk. It was weird seeing my parents that way, but they were having a good time, so who am I to complain?
ReplyDeleteNot everyone drinks out of depression. Some people do it to loosen up the social atmosphere. The first time I drank, I realized how adults can survive their boring parties. Maybe some people drink to overcome their shyness.
Do you think its healthy to use alcohol to overcome shyness or loosen up the social atmosphere? I'm honestly divided on it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was much younger, my mom was an alcoholic and that bothered me greatly. Growing up I was staunchly against the stuff. Now that I'm older and see how responsible alcohol consumption can assist in some situations, I'm no longer against it completely but instead understand that it's not always a bad thing. And yes, I do think it is healthy to use alcohol to loosen up a social atmosphere, but not the overcoming shyness aspect.
ReplyDelete(this is a different anon from before, by the way).
i too grew up in an addictive atmosphere which included alcohol. and i too concluded that alcohol isnt all bad.
ReplyDeleteAlcohol is a depressent. but i dont think it depresses people. from what i've seen it depresses your ability to pull up that second face. the one the rest of the world sees most of the time. if what lies beneath the mask is sad then when you're drunk you'll be sad. but if instead what lies beneath the mask is someone who wants to have a good time... there you go