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It's Not My Problem You Had To Be 10 Drinks Deep To Hit Send On Your Sober Draft

There's no such thing as "in the moment."

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Mia Cullen

We drink, we say stupid things. In this day and age, you can almost expect that any of your drunken rants are recorded and posted on someone's snap story. The snap chat will only last twenty-four hours, thankfully. Thinking about it from a different perspective: what about texting? We have all received drunk texts, we've sent them, it's a part of life.

Think about the oh-so-glorious morning after, you look at your phone and you receive the awkward and dreaded "Wtf, dude?" You'll pretend to be clueless, but "dude", you knew, "what the fuck" you were saying. Perhaps your motor-skills weren't the sharpest and you forgot a few punctuation marks, but you were fully aware of what you were saying.

In my mind, there's no such thing as a blackout/drunk text. Sure, your inhibitions are lowered, your adrenaline is pumping, but you must be honest with yourself. You were looking for an opportunity to say what you said, to do what you did, and your excuse is "I was wasted."

All too often people say that they're different people when they drink, but in my mind, they're truly themselves. Though drinking is seen as a social norm, it can ultimately bring out the worst in people. The way I see it, if you're sending angry drunk texts to someone who hurt you, you aren't handling your trauma correctly. While you're sober, you believe that the person who has hurt you has some kind of power/grip over you. You use being drunk as an excuse to tell them how you really feel.

The opposite of hate is love and it often comes out when people drink. This is the type of drunk text that usually gets people in trouble. If you're in a relationship with a person who drunk texts someone else their feelings for them, then you need to leave. And, if you yourself are guilty of doing this, you need to end your relationship. Obviously, you are not happy. Drunken texts are sober, drafts. Unlike snap chat stories, texts messages do not disappear on their own.

Your words no longer belong to you when they are put in writing. If you find yourself doing this when you drink, you need to sit down and think, "why, why do I feel the need to contact this person?" If you have a significant other, you should not be sending people outside of your relationship flirty drunk texts. You are responsible for your actions, though your inhibitions are lowered, your feelings towards a person(both positive and negative) do not change.

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