Jorge Javier Vazquez He has done an exercise in sincerity and has spoken about his problems with alcohol in the past. “I live much better without alcohol. I wouldn’t like to go back to what was before: hangovers, changing moods, low energy,” he confesses on his blog. Readings.
“I have drunk a lot for many years of my life. To escape, to go out at night, to not think. For not being satisfied with my job. With my reality. with myself“, he says. However, his thoughts regarding alcohol “appear more and more from time to time, they are no longer recurring.”
“I couldn’t conceive a life without alcohol. I wanted to drink less, yes, but I couldn’t do it. AND As the years go by, the guilt becomes more powerful and destructive.. And what should be classified as pleasure the next day becomes torture: have they recorded me? Will they have taken photographs of me? “Will they blackmail me?” he reflects.
However, he looks forward and analyzes what his life is like now without drinking alcohol. “Maybe it can be useful to someone who reads me.“, he assumes.
“When my psychologist told me that I had to give up alcohol, I resisted a lot. It was in vain. Even though I tried to negotiate, he didn’t budge: total abstinence“, he says. And he set about it.
“Stopping drinking when you have been doing it for many years means enter a reality as unknown as it is exciting. Because emotions and feelings that have been dormant or anesthetized for decades due to alcohol begin to wake up, to come to life. And I can assure you that meeting them again is very exciting. Little by little you begin to realize that you don’t need to drink to feel good. Or to live moments of euphoria. And even happiness. With the great advantage that the next day there are no bills to pay in the form of increasingly unbearable hangovers,” says the Catalan.
“Stopping drinking also means facing sad moments head on. Of unhappiness. With the important caveat that you do not try to avoid them by fleeing in the shape of a cup, but rather you accept them because you understand that they are states of mind that will eventually disappear. My life is much better since I don’t drink. Richer. With greater nuances. But I recognize that it is not easy to do it,” says the presenter, who assures that, for him, “stopping drinking has meant starting to live without fear“.
However, it has not been easy to get to the point where it is. “It’s not easy not to drink. There are times when you arrive at a dinner and when you say you don’t want a glass of wine there is always someone who says: ‘come on, just one.’ And you contain yourself but you feel like telling him that you wouldn’t just have one but half a dozen and that it’s hard enough for you not to accept it for an ember to come and remind you that you don’t drink anymore because you can’t control it.”