Alcohol explained to my little brother

Alcohol makes you realize you do not know who you really are.

Alcohol makes you bring down all the moral barriers to your mind, all the ethical walls to your soul, and act like you really want to. You will often regret it when you drink. But also, you will be kind of happy about being able to do all of that stuff that you do not permit yourself to do when you are sober. Although you probably will not remember anything afterwards, you will still be happy for yourself; you will feel like you deserve it. And whatever you do will never matter to others: drunk people are drunk, you cannot judge them if they are drunk.

Alcohol will take all your tears away, for a night: it is like a small vacation from life, that you take to visit a whole new place, a happy place, but only for the night. Sometimes you cry, but you still are happy. Your problems might seem either surreal or pretty unreal, either way, you fell this is not reality; you are on a vacation from the real world, and although you might still remember some glimpses, you know you are very far away.

Alcohol will make you want girls you never noticed before, it will make you love every single person around you, you will feel surrounded by love; and yet extremely lonely too. You will be transported into a dimension where only positive emotions exist, and yet you will feel so far from those emotions: you will smell them but never taste them. You will see them and hear them, but never touch them.

Alcohol will make you see life as it really is, but you will do so as an alien watching it on a huge screen. You will see them interacting, you will interact with them, but none of that will feel real to you, as if all your interactions are filtered by a thick glass wall.

Alcohol will, at the end of the night, destroy you. You will feel tired and yet you will feel no pain. You will be able to hear the cries of your body's suffering, but from a distance.

Alcohol might, the next morning, make you regret ever drinking it. As your body eliminates it you will feel the weight of each of the lobes of your brain, pressuring against the base of your skull. You will also feel every single vibration of your ear-drum, as sounds will be really amplified. You will feel you are carrying double your weight on each leg, as you drag yourself through a day of non-productivity.

Alcohol is not that awesome after all. Drink coffee instead!