I'm starting to not care about getting wasted and looking like an idiot… There’s the whole principle of being reinforced for doing something.... Well, it's like I'm being positively reinforced when I do it....

It's as if drunkenness is a window to one's soul, in a sense. The stupid facades most of us have developed die along with soberness. They melt away so quickly, leaving others with a view of the whims that drive us, the ideals we might hold dear, our morals, our desires, our secrets, how the hurt we might have endured over the course of our lives has shaped us... basically, who we really are....

Moreover, someone will much more readily reveal their true self to someone when they’re drunk, and when they are drunk, their façade is temporarily done away with. I've seen it a good few times, and I’ve also been the one to verify this theory on a few occasions.

And sadly at the end of it all, you wake up with a headache, or perhaps a queasy stomach… and the facade comes back. And it stays, and remains simply because you've developed it to prevent yourself from being hurt by the facades of most other people...

And it lasts until you get drunk again, or until you meet someone, and are willing to risk dropping the facade for him or her, and they seem to feel the same. If they don’t truly feel the same, they’re likely to hurt you, and then your façade will return again, and you’re probably likely to be even less trusting of people who seem to want a relationship. And can you be blamed?

I shall maintain that the closest I have ever become to anyone that I've shown my true personality to, has happened when either she, or both of us, were drunk

I wish we could all just leave our facades at home....