What are you drinking?

“Spending a night out drinking is akin to dismantling every piece of protection we have—our cognition, our decision making, our reaction time, our memory, our standards, our voice. If we thought about alcohol in this way—as something that undermines our collective momentum and personal agency and vitality and self-worth—what would that m

• IRL (in real life connections) are back.


• Health is a major focus. Fewer alcoholic drinks and healthier alternatives.


• Home ownership is becoming less important.


• 93% hope to have long-term relationships.


• Optimistic about the economy right now.


• Purchasing from sustainability-focused brand

I had a fantasy of myself drinking just then, not drinking in the sophisticated, martini-glass sense but in the raging, obliterating sense, drinking to get drunk, drinking in order to yield to that rebellious urge and show everyone in the room just how angry I was, just how out of place I felt, just how self-destructive I could be in response.