Pascal Helfenstein

I don't know anyone who still regularly drinks alcohol A year ago or so, we had an old friend who was a daily drinker visit our little beach village He obviously had an alcohol problem, but he also said he didn't feel like changing that, spreading his arms wide during the dinner I had with him shouting "I LOVE ALCOHOL" and then buying shots for the waiter staff and forcing them to drink it 🤦‍♂️ Every time we met him alcohol was involved Since he had zero plan to change that we stopped hanging out with him I've seen A LOT of families around me destroyed by alcohol and I have zero plan to go the same way It seems people can handle alcohol fine until life gives them setbacks and then it spirals out into a full blown addiction, at a time frame of 40 years everyone's life will have setbacks so that's a massive risk Me and my friends are all in our 30s and slowly designed our life around making cool things, being financially independent from making those things and then enjoying life, hanging out with each other, and health: fitness, sports, sauna, good clean food, no processed junk (okay but only very very sometimes ;) and almost never ever alcohol Having someone come into the healthy community you built for years and try to get everyone to fuck up again was an interesting experience Luckily nobody was interested to participate Not a judgement thing btw, I think you should do whatever in your 10s and 20s, but in your 30s it starts actually affecting your health Which is also cool if you want that but I don't want that personally nor do my friends One photo of that night, everyone drank sparkling water except our guest I'm personally very happy to see alcohol dying out

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