RE: The Dark Side Has a Key — And Alcohol Knows Where It Is
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The comments you make here on alcohol being the key to some "darkness" within us rings so true. My darkness is so often loneliness, likely being the subject of an overbearing mother and a single child, from an arranged marriage.
Regardless, when I drunk, I get cuddly. I get affectionate. All the things I struggle to be when I'm sober - but lately (as in the most recent 2-3 years) good friends have helped bring that out in my sober self.
Without excess, without the flamboyant proclamations of loving the pavement, the street light, the hallway table.
I've had other darker, sadder encounters with alcohol, but never violence from my own form. We've all seen that violence in others, those "Demons" but, as you say, they've always been there, and they've always lurked within.
Some people can't control those demons even when not impacted by substances they selectively choose to ingest. The thing I hate, though?
Music Festivals. Alcohol. Sporting Events. Alcohol. Art Exhibition Opening? Alcohol. Party? Alcohol. Celebration? Alcohol. Commiseration? Alcohol.
It seems to be the answer to every question and the way almost everything manages to pull a profit. Perhaps that is the darkest comment on its nature. That so many things would not be viable without Alcohol.
And that is true sadness.