Why Not Right Now?

Thinking about drinking this holiday season? Because in the back of your mind you’ve told yourself that that after New Year’s you will turn over the proverbial new leaf? And since it’s so close by somehow it seems like a real promise. In this way we can still take our comfort in a time when our drinking will get lost with the other earthlings that are over indulging too.  We love to compare because it deflects us from looking at our behavior of a self-will run riot.  

Trouble is that as there is no particular time to stop drinking. We make dates on a calendar in our delusional mind that give it more significance than right now. We lose ourselves in promises we’ve made over and over and broken more times than we’ve tied our shoes. 

So no one will notice if we wait until January to start what needs to be begun today except ourselves.  I can only tell you from experience not wisdom that there’s no time like the present to stop and the significance it will have next year will be better than any New Years resolution we’ve made all our lives.