Just don't drink.

Because of the epidemic and many things that have happened at home recently, I have hardly touched alcohol in recent months. I feel a lot more relaxed all over.

Actually, on the issue of drinking, I still deliberately control it. On some occasions, I can hide and drink less if I can. Because I always think that drinking is a time-consuming and harmful thing, which can be said to hurt the body and money. Although my alcohol consumption is average, the limit of drinking white wine is about one catty.

I don't have any alcohol addiction, unlike some friends around me, who are anxious after two days without drinking. Therefore, many times they passively participate in some wine bureaus. Sometimes, in order to protect ourselves, we will find some reasons to prevaricate, for example, the recent "high transaminase", the recent skin allergy, and the recent COVID-19 vaccine.

But three situations are inevitable: get together with very close friends and have two drinks to entertain. Or ask others to do something, and you can't express your feelings without drinking two glasses. Or with leaders or elders, you are afraid of losing face if you don't drink two cups. Always walking by the river, how can you not wet your shoes? As long as you participate in the wine game, you will occasionally make a fool of yourself, make mistakes, and even lose your memory and fragment the next day because you drink too much.

In May this year, I got drunk at a colleague's party, and the next day I was top-heavy and uncomfortable. I took the initiative to write a vow of abstinence, which read: Middle-aged people have passed the golden age of unrestrained drinking. I hereby solemnly promise to stop drinking from now on, and I will do it as proof. I also signed it and promoted it in a circle of friends. When my daughter saw it, she said it was the best birthday present she had ever received. My daughter's birthday is in May.

At that time, the idea was that abstinence from alcohol was definitely not a simple promise, but at least it was a reminder to myself and an attitude towards friends who had an appointment with alcohol. It was better to stay away from alcohol as much as possible.

I don't know whether this commitment letter has worked or other reasons, but there are really a lot fewer people asking me for wine. Apart from the epidemic and things at home, I have hardly drunk in the last two or three months. The relaxed feeling exposed from the inside out really feels comfortable.

The most obvious feeling is that I drank too much wine before, especially the next day, and felt that my hands would tremble involuntarily when I wrote, and the words I wrote were crooked.

Now this phenomenon has completely disappeared.

A few days ago, I read an article saying that on August 4th, official website, the Ministry of Science and Technology, called the roll: drinking causes cancer. In this paper, a study in the authoritative journal Oncology in The Lancet confirmed that alcohol is a 1 carcinogen defined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization, and it is the main cause of cancer in the world, and the number of cancers will further increase with the increase of alcohol consumption.

When people reach middle age, they gradually see clearly that any fame and fortune is not as real as a good body.

Some people say that many people spend their whole lives in exchange for money when they are young, and they spend their whole lives in exchange for money when they are old. Therefore, as long as you are in good health, it is equivalent to making money.

I'm impressed.

There is no need to have a drink once in a while. Drinking has its own fun. But there is a limit to everything. For me, I always can't grasp this precious "degree", so I'd better stay away as far as possible.

I hope I can always find this feeling: it's good not to drink!