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THE BOOZE-FREE CLUB: MINDFUL DRINKERS

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"What is real for me is the back of the problems," says culture historian Jacob Burckhardt. If there is a problem in the middle, there is also an escape: "Alcohol". The price of alcohol does not attract as much attention as the designs of its bottle. Because you don't actually feel sorry for the money you give alcohol.

You cannot think of the art world independent of alcohol. There is an alcohol theme that you love: artists, composers, and their works are seen as friends with their loneliness behind the camera. Of course, you cannot see the following information in biographies or "Routines of Artists" style books: You know Vincent van Gogh's work called The Starry Night, but what about his fondness for The Green Fairy.

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You are definitely taking part in alcohol in one corner of your mind, whether you are aware or not during the day. Indispensable of the artists' studios, a port where people who are less intolerant of each other at the opening of the exhibition take refuge when they have to communicate, an escape, a break. We like to escape from the real world by human nature. We dream, read books, listen to music, watch movies, paint and drink... We do not see alcohol as an addiction.

How can something we buy by paying its price be addictive to us? Although this thought seems unreasonable to us: what you buy is your owner. It is not a short-term purchase, but a simple shopping is not at all, you shape your life accordingly. Pay attention to what people are talking about during the day, they will surely bring the subject to drink after a certain time. Because this has now become a habit. "Let's eat, it will be nice with a great wine." "I have a meeting tonight also I have a headache and whiskey takes all my pain." "Beer-fries day!" "My unhappy marriage is obvious, don't make the same mistake, cheers!" "The artist does not want to extend the interview, and he also requests some whiskey for his coffee."


People live not dependent on alcohol itself, but on the thought that they believe it is a break against all the negative realities in their lives. 

A break they see against unhappy marriages, family relationships, love problems, friendships, work, stress, anxiety, responsibilities, confusion in mind and all the burdens on them. Actually, this is not a break. This is an escape. Escaping relaxes the person for a short time. There is a life you envy in one corner of your mind, even if you can't. Here you think that your only fun is drinking in surroundings that does not match the world of your dreams, where you have no wishes.

Well, if we think you stopped drinking? You went to the opening and you are sober. You went home and you are sober. You work in the studio or office, and this is amazing, you're sober again. A number of changes have started to occur in your life. You don't consciously kill your brain neurons. If the money you gave to alcohol accumulated after a while, it could be used for other things. You have devoted the time you devote to alcohol and the social life it brings to another new area in your life. You're sober. You are aware of everything and you can still have fun even though you communicate consciously. Your responsibilities help you improve, not your escape. Above all, you are healthy.

It's a fact that you are not at once but at a spacious beginning. Your social life continues, you realize that there are things you can drink besides alcohol. You have noticed that consuming alcohol in the surroundings does not bring status or cool attitudes.

And then?

Alcohol is thought to be unifying; celebrations, openings, concerts, special invitations, friendly atmosphere, special days... In fact, it's too unhealthy to be a unifying feature in the long term. Unless you constantly overdo it, you can of course even enjoy it, but stop seeing alcohol as an escape in your mind. Face your own life and your presence in your surrounding, be conscious. Notice that you can have fun and produce while conscious. And be careful, sooner or later what you buy regularly by giving money is actually bought you. 

Destina Hande Cil : “All my co-workers know that I don't like or drink alcohol and I'm also tired of being insisted on something that I can't even think of in my daily life. Unfortunately, I almost started “adult-baby-sitting” in my work life. Why do we have to check someone's alcohol all the time? Or do we have to be subjected to conversations about their drunken behavior? There's no point in “being an adult” if you're leaving control to someone else. They can attribute every behavior to alcohol and get away with it. All those people whose unhappiness I witnessed -artists, company owners, actors, and many more- they see alcohol as an escape. They put themselves in situations where I really think they should shake it off. They didn't like it when I said it face to face, but you can't change the truth and what's visible. It's quite boring to keep an eye on someone all the time. Having fun or enjoying yourself is not something that revolves around a single element. It seems artificial to me that the concept of quality time is tied to alcohol. I can't adopt something artificial at all.”

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