You'll ruin your life somehow some way.

It is everywhere.

It can pass into all the cells and tissues of your body.

It was a very progressive decline in my aspirations.

Alcohol is normalized in our society.

You want to figure out something that you're doing with your life

that's worth not getting drunk and screwing up.

I drank in search of happiness and in search of a lifestyle

that I thought would bring me to happiness.

It didn't, and I woke up one morning going,

wow, I drank a lot, but I'm still not happy.

What's that about?

I recall in high school, some motivational speakers

will come to my school and say, don't do drugs.

But absent from those talks was any reference to alcohol.

Alcohol got introduced to my life.

Pete, you might say, well, why did people drink too much?

It's like, if you like alcohol, that's a stupid question.

It is ingrained.

It's the social glue that sticks everything together.

And my mom was trying to end with, it's way bad.

You don't want to do it.

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