I'm starting to acknowledge that I may have a problem with alcohol. Really, there's no reason that I should ever really need more than one or two drinks, but once I've started it's really difficult to stop. And so instead, I have four or five and then waste the next day feeling like shit, and it's really pointless.

I'm really grateful to not experience alcoholism to the point of ruining my entire life, but that doesn't mean I have to stand idly by while I continue to make the same poor choices and waste time that could be otherwise spent doing something more gratifying and productive.