The Enemy

Is alcohol the enemy?
No. It’s not a life form, it’s a chemical, ethanol. But it is harmful especially when it oxidized to acetaldehyde in your liver. But it’s just fuel, like gasoline, poison. If you leave it aside, nothing happens. Alcohol only holds power when you start to interact with it, that’s the beauty of it; a knife wont hurt you either, unless you start to play with it & cut your self accidently.

The tricky thing is that interacting with alcohol won’t put you into immediate high danger, as mind & body always try to find a way to manage- & recover from it, in the same way as nature want to recover from a small scratch (or open wound). However, it is by repetition of ethanol on long term.. that body & mind more gets affected over time, hurting you more profoundly, in the same way as you would keep scratching yourself with the knife on the same spot every day; you would then probably end-up in a hospital to let them treat your wound. Your mind & body doesn’t like it, whether you believe in alcohol or not, the truth effect of a poison to life can’t lie.