“What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals” Proverb

Ok - it is probably a man thing - but I like pubs - the old fashioned type - where groups of men (yes usually men), swig beer, spill beer, crack jokes, offer great solutions to the world's problems, tease each other, disagree about referees decisions at football - BUT - every now and then have a meaningful and even thoughtful inebriated discussion.

It is amazing what you can find out about people you have known for a long time when the soberness disappears.  

We were discussing one Friday evening recently silly irrational things that affect our lives and are quite a hindrance if not worse.  The crazy thing that struck me was that story after story was revealing how we all seem to have minds, behaviours and thoughts that need some loving care.

I could actually equate with the darkness problem:-  

My wife and I got lost one evening getting back to our motorhome after an evening down a pub (I am not always in a pub)  

We had clearly walked up a wrong street some distance before we realised our mistake.   There was a railway station showing a local map and we could see that we had two alternatives: 

ONE - going back about a mile down the road, along to the right road and another mile walking up that to our motorhome.  

TWO: The alternative was to take a track clearly marked through a golf course and a wood, just a half a mile walk.  

The moon was up making the track clear in the dark and we set off. 

Five minutes later as we headed into the wood, clouds covered the moon and all went very dark.  The difference was staggering - the sounds, the movements and crackling of the trees in the breeze - sounds of animals.  OK we got through but it was a memorable experience.