How Drunk is Drunk Enough

A little boy walks into a backwoods shanty looking for his hero. He finds him there sitting at a table with some, what shall we call them, friends?

He needs to make his proposition known, but he realizes his hero and his friends are .. “busy”.

Stating that perhaps this isn’t the right time and that he should come back later, on account of their “busyness”, his hero makes it known that he’s in fact not busy and not drunk, as to the reference.

He goes on, there wasn’t enough whisky in the state of Georgia to get him drunk enough.

You might think this sounds familiar and you would be right if you’ve seen the movie Bagger Vance.

This sweet boy asks his hero, “how drunk is drunk enough?”

Today I want to ask you something similar, but instead replacing one sensation for another.

We are no longer drunk. We are in fact as sober as we can get.

We were riding high on life cruising around the interstates and now we find ourselves pulled over on the side of the highway with an officer asking us to step out of the car.

In a flash, we are sober.

All that busyness. All that moving and shaking.

All that buying up cheap “fashion” that’s been poured down our throats for long enough by our modern celebrities. The influencer.

All that money. All that real estate hype.

All that time. Spent and wasted.

All those cares about what others think and will I hurt their feelings if I say no.

All that excess, the big house, the stuff in the garage, the stuff in the closets.

All of it. I think we got drunk enough. And since we couldn’t seem to halt our trips to the liquor store, Mother Earth stepped in and helped us out.

She burned the place down. No more for you!

She needs a break. And so do we. In our drunken-ness, we’ve gotten a little selfish. We’ve forgotten about her, and we’ve forgotten about our health and our body.

No more she said, for her sake and ours. Sit down my child. Stay still. Rest (or at least learn to embrace it). Read. Be with your family (you’ve forgotten them in all that busy-ness). Cook at home. Real food too. Go outside for no other reason than to get fresh air.

So friends, how drunk is drunk enough?

I think we’ve found the answer.