For those who used to drink alcohol but no longer do, what made you quit the bottle?
For me alcohol has taken me through rough paths and embarrassing moments. I remember throwing up on the table full of wazees when I was still a rocky in the business of imbibing to an almost death experience after a Chang’aa drinking spree in juja while still in college. Have lost 18k in good hope, dry fried lanes, woken up not recalling how I got home and finding dents on the not remembering how or what happened.
All these didn’t deter me what made throw in the towel was the hangovers. Jesus, regardless of the type of alcohol that I drunk the hangover was always the same and always took 2 full days to recover. I would have a running stomach, unbearable headaches and even pains on my knee joints.
One day in August this year after recovering from the mother of all hangovers, I decided I av had enough and have not drunk since then. The urge is sometimes there and its a fight to resist. I have assumed more responsibilities and can’t say am saving the cash that I used to drink.
For those who are still drinking, do it responsibly and for those who are willing to quit, do it its worth it.
Gorbachev has a map on his head. how many maps do you have on you? You know, alcohol gets you into arguments with all manner of barriers including walls and the ground.
:D:D you’ve finally quit,hii story ya kushikwashikwa kila wakati juu ya kurape tu shosho kule Muranga umeona haileti shangwe.
Climax ni vile ulipatwa na mangotha za wamama .
Pombe ni mbaya my friend,I hope you get over it
I don’t do alcohol, coz my body is a temple and I don’t desecrate it with filth.
Also, I’m planning on donating my organs when I kick the ol’ bucket, so I want the recipients to get them in the best possible shape.
Seriously, I’ve never understood why alcohol and sex are such big deals.
Pombe sio mbaya. Bora uelewe sio supu. Tumemumunya fobe since 2005 , and there were good days, and bad days. Bad days, a large chunk of 2012-2015 I cannot recall. Resident DDO back then. Fucked up chieth but I never regret it, maisha ni kupitia na ndume hutoka mbali nanii. That chapter closed and opened a new one.
Nikimumunya jug Daniels nowadays, out of nostalgia, I just smile when I remember the days.
Pombe ina maliza weak kenyan niggaz in the diaspora. Wanafikiri ni hepi but deep down ni alcoholism. Ladies are the worst coz they are the weaker gender. Home sickness na stress ya majuu pushes these ladies to serious alcoholism . Wacha niwachie hapo.
Nimekuwa nikiitiwa pombe from Friday hadi leo Yes Sunday but i lie to them nakuja but siendi.
I once read somewhere that a young and highly inebriated Hitler once shat atop his brutal school master’s table. In the morning after being caned thoroughly and even expelled he swore never to touch alcohol again.
Of course that was easier said than done because not only was he an occasional drinker, baadaye cocaine pia ilikuja ikawa chakula yake.
Every time Kenyans (like other Africans) in the diaspora meet its all about alcohol. Then in the wee hours of the morning watu wakishalewa wanaanza tabia zisizoleweka… everyone is abusing everyone, trying to fight the next person, accusing each other of stealing their man or woman. That is the time you will know who is an illegal na kadhalika juu that is included in the menu ya matusi. Hapo kwa ladies umegonga ndipo, some are beyond repair.
Sasa unataka tuseme ulizaliwa 1976? You do realize that that would make you 43 years old.
Do you know how depressing such an age is? I’m sure you’ve seen the likes of @Abba bitching here about his govt job and being old na ujue labda alikuwa anataka kukuwa kq captain back then akiwa in his 30s huko 1998… :D… akingoja millenium ifike.
… but today with 4 known children and 2 wives in Bungoma hizo dreams alifunga zamani. Hebu appreciate your youth and options.
I also quit on 31st August. Nilikaa tu nikaona pombe sio yangu. I have seen what it can do to professors, doctors and other supposedly intelligent people, reducing them to walking shells and hopeless creatures. So nikajiuliza, I’m not as accomplished as those guys, kama inawaendea hivyo je mimi??
Unlike you, I don’t miss alcohol because I do everything that I used to do minus the alcohol. That means I still club once or twice a week after hitting my targets, only that I don’t order alcohol. I order non-alcoholic drinks instead.
I have seen many learned fellows who drink like fish and have nothing to show for it after years of hard work. I also know some people in humble occupations such as taxi drivers, who don’t drink and have their shit together.
Caveat:- Sisemi pombe ni mbaya. In fact, some people can drink their entire lives - and do so responsibly. Siri ni kujijua. So, nilijijua that I cannot be a responsible drinker because I do not know any responsible drinker in my extended family. Jamii yetu you are either a very successful teetotaler or a hopeless alcoholic. There is no middle-ground. The only successful relative who drinks began in his fifties when he had already set himself up for life with property and farms. He didn’t drink during his prime years.
