The Art of Drinking Alone

I don’t think many people need an introductory course on How to Drink Alone, but this article does illustrate the “art” of drinking alone quite admirably.

It certainly takes skill and a fair amount of creativity to turn the somber act of solitary drinking into some type of poetic catharsis. Of course the most common result of this solo activity is loneliness and depression, but you wouldn’t know that from those that wax poetic on the subject.

Drink liquor — whiskey. Listen a little. Enjoy the muffled aural measures of a bar waking up. Watch the door or the window instead. Draw connections to the world outside, even as it recedes slightly from perception. Notice the angles of light, the pulse of the traffic, even the evolution of customers who drift in as the day twists down to its nub.

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Well it doesn't happen that way except in the movies. Surely there are a few that enjoy the sensory pleasures (get real) of a bar filling to capacity, but to be more honest most are probably just trying to drown out reality in general. And the connection you thought was made between you and the blond at the end of the bar, sorry, that was just a look of pity. As an alcoholic I can assure you that it takes absolutely no talent to drink alone, but it certainly does to make it sound pleasurable.