Drinking (n.) is done to forget if something bad happens, to celebrate if something good happens, and if nothing is happening, one drinks to make something happen.
Drinking (n.) is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn.
Drinking (n.) is a state in which the world is still out there, but for the moment it doesn't have you by the throat.
Drinking (n.) is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
Drinking (n.) is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
Drinking (n.) is taking away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
Drinking (n.) is not the best response to everything, it's the best response to nothing.