I actually like to drink, too, but I hate to be drunk. I love to drink a nice scotch here and there, and generally keep a couple bottles of something fine laying about, but the drive to drink enough to get drunk, or hammered is the impulse to which I was referring.
Yeah, at your size I'm sure you can handle your shit, especially if you drink regularly, and from reading your subsequent words it seems to me the vomit and ill feelings were not actually planned or part of your regular mode of operation in terms of drinking.
You make very valid points- especially that you are a grown ass man allowed to make his own decisions for which people can check their judgment at the door. I think the cheeseburger and milk would have been enough to send my stomach through a loop anyway... My vegetarian girlfriend is turning me into a pussy...hahaha...but at the same time this health nut lifestyle I used to scoff at is a tremendous way to experience the human nervous system. Most times the impulse to drink heavily, or compulsively use other drugs, is behaviour I associate with an improperly functioning nervous system.
I suppose for many the decision to stop drinking has affected their life so greatly, they're compelled to share that info with anyone they encounter. I'm not here passing judgement holmes, you do your thing and I'll do mine!!
But I am quite aware that not everyone reacts the same to these substances. While the ingestion of psychedelic cactus or mushrooms may still tend toward feelings of sickness and nausea, I've never heard of anyone drinking to achieve mental clarity- which at this point is something I ultimately strive for, that for me personally, alcohol greatly disturbs. I do however consider my intentional ingestion of psychedelic substances to be of a different sort of impulse which some might say is similar.