Serious talk
Mood:
d'oh
Topic: Everyday life
I've been posting a lot of pictures, links and silly stuff lately so I thought I'd serious for moment here... When should you do when someone just don't want to stop drinking? I met a friend today on my way to the store. It was around 11 am and he was already drinking cider and carrying around a bag of booze. Coming from the drinker's bench. He stopped and wanted to talk but I felt like I had nothing nice to say so I just walked by. Felt kinda guilty afterwards. I thought he'd lernt his lesson but apparently not. When I first got to know him he was a bit childish but he had a good job and a girlfriend that he shared a house with. Then he started to hang out with some friends who were drinking and so was he. But they stopped and he didn't. He lost his job, his girlfriend (don't know the reason for that though) and eventually also his home. He committed some petty crimes and whatnot. About a year or so ago he agreed to a bet: No drinking for six months. At all. He stopped. He started to sort out all the crime stuff, he manged to get a fixed income, he got an apartment. And he seemed proud of what he had accomplished. About a month before the bet was up he started to talk about the drinking again, counting down the days left. Bought beer. an now, a month or so later after the bet ended he's back where he started. I know we're all more or less screwed up in some way, but this is really destructive behaviour. What do you do in a situation like this??