Time will tell where the bottle takes you physically and emotionally. A few days of drinking are fun, thrilling, warm, often romantic and loaded with surprises.
A few decades of drinking are full of decay, deceit, hate, anger, loneliness, depression and the inability to see yourself as you really are.
Somewhere in between is the last chance to turn around before the occasional drink rips away your sanity and takes you to a place so low that death becomes an attractive option.