To Tell or Not To Tell?
04/10/11 • 0 Comments

I am one week in. I am already starting to feel the pressure to take a Sabbatical from my commitment!  I am not surprised by the lack of outside encouragement; I freely admit I wake up or crawl home most weekends, promising the universe, my flatmate, my mother, my facebook friends and my pillow to “never drink again”.  Like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, how can I expect to be taken seriously? On the other hand, the self-centred responses, “What?  You’re not even going to drink on my birthday” or, “Just do Ocsober instead, it only lasts one month” from my closest allies that has me somewhat bemused.  It leads me to this question: Is it really worth telling others of my HSM crusade?    A couple of years ago, a tee- totalling friend of my family seemingly out of the blue, suggested I stop drinking.  Too weary from the [...]