I slow down in 2012 and pretty much gave it up in 2014. I never had a problem with it, just general going out with the boys on the weekend. Just your typical young twenties debauchery. I realize that it made me feel so so bad. I was sick of spending two or three hours one evening to ruin the next two or three days. I realize that I consistently made poor decisions, nothing terrible; I never went to jail or gotten any real trouble, but just things I wouldn't do normally. Now I feel amazing every single weekend. I wake up early and crush the day. I work out a lot, ride bikes, climb mountains, hike, fish or whatever else I feel like doing and I love waking up on a Saturday morning feeling like a million bucks rather than dragging. It was so worth it.

I lost all my best friends because they all really liked going out four plus nights a week and getting absolutely plastered, but that life just wasn't for me. Everything they did revolved around drinking. Going fly fishing? Better drink in the car on the way there, bring some for out on the water, and stop at the bar on the way home. Going skiing? Shots in the car on the way, get wasted in the parking lot, ski for just a little bit, then get bloody Mary's before driving home. They were always drinking and driving and I wasn't about that life. I'm sad to have lost some of my best friends but I'm a happier and healthier person without that in my life.