Intoxicated: The Truth in Intoxicants

By: Arjay L. Balinbin

Life is like a bottle of Red Horse. The first shot may not hit your tongue’s desire but when followed by another one, your nerves will thirst for the pleasure it brings. Yet, pleasure does not stay long unless you love to vomit and feel the insurgency of all the stuff inside your stomach, added with your head’s grief as if being squeezed by a big man’s hand.

When I experienced being covered with a blanket of wrinkle-causing dilemmas, I just simply stopped and imagined that my mind is an empty bottle that thinks nothing. Only to realize that my mind is an empty Red Horse bottle that needs to be refilled. So again, I got drunk.

All I want in life is just to be always happy. I want to make use of every hour in this life worthy. Though I am being bombarded with all the heavy loads that test my strength, the hell I care for I believe that the situation must not rule over me. I ought to learn that my mind and hands too are capable of taking control of the situations that occur.

Every man experiences failures in life, so why should be afraid to experience so? There are always good things attached in everything perceived as bad in this world, and that if you will learn to see the whole of the doughnut and not merely its hole.

The ability to look forward is a condition for success in passing the challenges. There are no such quick solutions in every trial as liquors that easily make us drunk. We need lots of time. We need to exert effort not just hoping for the best but with spirit of action.

The journey of a real drunkard is the journey in search for truth in life. Drunkard for he admires the alcoholic impact of life which provides all the experiences to hone him holistically.

Life intoxicates us with all the elements that are possibly negative or positive, depending on the stand of our perspectives. Sometimes, we dare to stop when we think that we can no longer carry ourselves to arrive in our planned destinations, but when I experienced being totally drunk and had no energy at all to awaken my sleeping body and mind, my friends who cared and knew the road towards my intended place brought me there safely and with care.

I love intoxicants so as life for there is truth in them. All we need is just to pursue our determination and develop courage in us in search for such.

People who fail to understand that life requires us to fight in the battle arena of trials and frustrations, get confused when tested with the thorns of troubles. They become melancholic. They become impulsive. They are likely to suffer hopelessness as if being caged in a bottle of beer with no way out which makes them badly drunk with the burdens of life.

As we are enjoying the intoxicants of life, we meet new faces to go along with us. We couldn’t survive without sharing a tie with others. We need them for they help us grow and discover new flavors of beer as we go on.

Pessimistic drunkards are mortal sinners. They view the world with pointed corners rather than spherical. They are likely to curse life and draw some illusions in their minds that it might be the end of the world for them, so no any reasons to move on.

Life is an extraordinary intoxicant that takes off our masks and blindfolds to view all the things around us as they are, and not solely isolated within our own ignorant conceptions. We need to grow up as persons. We need to build up ourselves through our willing submission to the realities in life and so as to God.

Do not wait for the last drop of your beer before to realize all the obligations and commitments that await you. Procrastination is a toxic that little by little kills the possibility of our dreams in life.

Dare to have a wider perspective. Intoxicant is not a mere bottle of alcohol like Red Horse. Intoxicant is all present in us. You might not know that you are an intoxicant to your family, to your friends, and to your society.

From the bottle to the substance, examine how intoxicants bring a correlation to our lives. Your wider thoughts will bring you the truth as exceptional intoxicants can do.

See the trees not trees but forest.

See the houses not houses but village.

See the earth not earth but world.

See the problems not hardships but challenges.

See the life not existence but happiness.

See the positive not resilience but optimism.

See the INTOXICANT not liquor but TRUTH…