"In all this world, why I do think
There are five reasons why we drink:
Good friends, good wine, lest we be dry
and any other reason why."
here and old gaelic poem about not drinking:
The Yellow Bittern
"Oh yellow bittern I grieve your dying
And your bones stretched out notwithstanding your humour
It isnt want of food, but of the damned drink
Thats left you dead on your back
This is worse to me than the fall of Troy
You lying dead on the bare stones
You brought no hurt or harm to anyone
As you preferred wine to well water
It isnt your birds there that Im lamenting
The cuckoo, the corncrake or the dappled heron
Its my yellow bittern, who was full of heart
And was like myself in style and color
He was forever drinking the draught
And its said that I am the same way
There isnt a drop I could get that I wouldnt swallow
For fear that I could die from thirst!
My love asked me to put down the drink
Or I wouldnt be alive much longer
But I told her that she lied
And Id live longer if I kept on drinking
Didnt you all see the bird of the long gullet
Who died from thirst a little while ago?
So, my bosom friends, drown your thirst
As you wont get a drop at all after youre dead!"
using drink for ulterior motives like escaping reality instead of for the pure joy of getting pissed is blasphemy...its terrible to take advantage of the wonderous thing that is alchohol for such selfish reason