Control

[asterroc]

A couple of my students recently have asked me ... well, they said, "you know what it's like to drink a lot, you were a college student." And my answer was no, I don't know what it's like. "C'mon, you have to have drunk." "Yeah right, of course you drank." And no, I didn't. I didn't really drink anything until grad school, and even to this day the most I've had in a night is three. I think I've done this on three separate occasions, and one time I really thought I was going to puke and fall over with just that little.

So the question is why not? And reading through some literature on binge drinking, I figured it out. There is exactly one thing in the world that I can control: Myself. I am not willing to give that up.

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[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

When I get depressed, I want a drink. And when I get really stressed, I want a cigarette. Are these cravings genetics combined with knowledge gleaned? Or are they simply environmental?

Of course, I don't give into these cravings. (Okay, I gave into smoking once during a particularly frustrating group software engineering project my senior year)