For Me, Wine Is…
“Nothing can better soothe unhappiness than drinking wine.” Ancient Chinese people believe in this saying, modern Chinese too. But wine does not only mean a pain-killer. As a wine-lover, although I never let myself get drunk, I think wine means a lot to me.
Often, we drink when we feel depressed. When I feel very unhappy, I like to drink a bit. Wine cannot help solve problem, but when I drink a bit, I gradually feel a bit dizzy and too tired to think too much about the trouble. Wine can help me get a little rest from my stressful life, and this rest helps me to get back my energy to work and to tackle the problems.
We drink when we feel excited. When we have things we want to celebrate, or when we are having parties, how can we not have a drink? Even if we don’t drink, we can still be very excited during these events, but I am quite sure that no one can doubt wine’s ability of boosting up the party to full swing!
We drink to make ourselves be brave. In many movies, the actors drink before they fight, this appears most in Chinese martial art movies. For many people, and for me, we drink when we have something we want to do but dare not to do usually. There are many daily examples to prove that.
For instance, one of my female friend has fallen in love with a handsome guy. She wants to tell him her feeling but feels too shy to act. One day, she was out for drink and when she was a bit drunk, she called the boy and told him everything! Now, they are a couple already. Wine sometimes acts as Venus!
We drink when we want to create a casual and friendly atmosphere. During many events, people have drinks to soothe the tense atmosphere and create a more friendly environment for people to know each other and make friends. Cocktail receptions, cocktail interviews, speed dating, orientation parties of universities and so on, they all have wine as a catalyst of fun-loving feeling. Without wine, the atmosphere will be much more stressful and tense.
Scholars and news groups always emphasize how harmful drinking is. No doubt, many crimes like speed-driving, wounding and raping are caused by severe intoxication, however, drinking wine is not equivalent to crime.
Drinking is not equivalent to errors, what really counts is how much you drink. No one should ever rely on wine to kill pain, physically or mentally, as they are just ‘pain-soother’ but not problem solution. Drink to make wine be good for you, but not to ruin you.
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