I woke up thinking I had full knowledge of my actions from the night before, until my housemates assured me that I did not.
Alcohol does strange things to people’s brains. For me, unlike others, alcohol had never before caused memory loss, however I made the fatal error that Tuesday night. The night all of our mammies warned us about. Going out and having a few drinks on an empty stomach. Oh, she would be tutting now. Drinking on that empty stomach resulted in a trip to the Regional two weeks later. So, I am the horror story. However I live to tell the tale and frankly, laugh about it.
I am neither completely for nor completely against alcohol. I am just like the majority of freshers, drunk on the power of independence. By this stage we all know alcohol’s effects. We have either experienced them ourselves, heard about them or witnessed our friends experience them.
Even though I ended up visiting A&E technically because of alcohol, I would still blame my sober brain first, for making the decision to only eat two bites of my dinner before getting carried away with my fake tan. It was a mistake, we all make them, and instead of getting upset over its occurrence, why not just have a full dinner before the next night out?
The consequences of alcohol abuse or abstention are wildly varied. When having “a few pints with the lads” results in you missing an assessment in the morning, then maybe you should sort out your priorities. When staying in on a Thursday night and swearing yourself off alcohol makes you unhappy and lonely then you also need to sort out your priorities. The extremes of any situation are cautionary. You shouldn’t deprive yourself in fear, or challenge yourself without fear.
Source: Aisling Moloney, Campus.ie, 20/11/15
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