![]() ![]() I tried a few weeks of facing them without the alcohol, and though the terrors were no better they were certainly not worse. Adam Roberts The Thing Itself Kindle Edition by Adam Roberts (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 138 ratings Kindle 3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing. But although I drank a lot, the nightmares refused to go away. There was a clincher, though, and it was this: my main rationale for drinking was to calm myself in the face of my night terrors. I could say ‘simple as that’, except that it really wasn’t simple at all. I woke up a week after my fiftieth birthday unable to remember the previous three days, and decided to stop. Drinking hard into your fifties means that you’re blowing hot and cold on ever seeing your sixties. ![]() If you’re still doing it in your forties it’s probably because you have unresolved stresses and problems which you are clumsily and destructively self-medicating. Keep drinking hard through your thirties and you start to separate yourself from fun, health and indeed other people. Drink hard in your twenties and you’re a regular, fun guy. ![]() “I eventually got a handle on the drinking. ![]()
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