Because you’re drinking more than you used to

You don’t too drink much. Just a glass of wine after work. Just a beer or two. Every night.

You need it, after a day grinding away at work that doesn’t matter.

You need some small pleasure, to balance the hours of antogonism, dissimulation and futility.

You need to quieten the chatter in your head, about issues unaddressed, decisions unsettled, disagreements unresolved.

You need to dull the sense of life squandered.

When you’re on vacation, you hardly drink at all. There’s so much else to enjoy, you don’t need it.