Day 36: I’m an elephant.

I’m an elephant. I have the wisdom and strength to counter this. I would sneeze immensely if I tried to drink beer with that long trunk of mine and would spray it over some poor bush. Beer has nothing on elephants. Elephants laugh at beer cans. They stomp them with their big feet and laugh.

I’m a polar bear. I have the patience and wits to survive in the harshest of conditions. I would rather walk 10 miles to a hole in the ice than drink a bottle of wine. I wouldn’t want to red stain my white fur and not remembering how. Wine would only make me do stupid things like rolling down a steep slope for laughs or fall asleep in a snowdrift in the middle of the night. Polar bears only use wine to trick other polar bears that a hole in the ice is a great spot to hunt seals. They would never think of drinking it.

I’m an ant. I have the stubbornness and know that I cannot do this all alone. I will build the anthill, day by day, with the contribution of others. Drunk ants are of no use since they cannot find their way home - and will just wander randomly in the woods without a purpose. Me, as sober ant, has a purpose and a role to fill: to build the common anthill and inspire other ants to stay away from alcohol. They will see that we together will build something much larger than ourselves.