Losing Inhibitions
Tonight is the night when a lot of people do a fair amount of drinking. People lose their inhibitions and do all sorts of things; some of them good, some not so. Most of those people like the feeling of losing those inhibitions, at least for a little while. They feel free from the life that binds them. How is your quality of life? Could it be better if you lost a few inhibitions?
Now I don’t want you to think that I am suggesting that you go around drunk all the time. I’m not even suggesting that you use alcohol or any substance to make your life better, more fun. What I am suggesting is that there is a way to lose some of those inhibitions and improve the quality, and yes the fun, in our lives. How?
When I was a kid, there were a few times when a bunch of us got together and would “party”. Some would be able to obtain booze and some of us couldn’t. I was often one who couldn’t. I learned that I could fake it and no one would really know the difference. I even found that I could lose my inhibitions if I acted drunk. How could I do that?
It was easy. We have our inhibitions because they are our defense against criticism when we do something others think foolish. We are inhibited from speaking our mind so someone doesn’t’ disagree with us. We are inhibited from acting a certain way in case someone doesn’t like it. Now a few inhibitions are reasonable, we should feel inhibited against walking naked down a city street, we could get arrested. Most inhibitions, however, keep us from being the person we really want to be.
The problem with losing our inhibitions through alcohol or some other substance is that we also lose our common sense, our reasoning. We might walk down the street naked anyway forgetting that we might get arrested. If we lose our inhibitions on purpose, we are able to be freer, without losing our reasoning abilities.
Let’s say we decide to lose the inhibition of speaking our mind. We are able to speak more freely, not worried about what others think without becoming obnoxious or getting into a fight with someone. We find that we have a sense of freedom in being able to say what we want. We become more confident when we find that we can hold our own in a conversation.
I know many men who won’t dance because they think they will look foolish. What if they decided to lose that inhibition and went out there a danced away, not worrying about how others looked at them. I can tell you from experience that they will have fun!
Our quality of life is much less when we allow ourselves to be ruled by our inhibitions and our feelings about what others think about us. Why not let go of those fears and live life to the fullest?
Here’s to You!
