.....when people were singing about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Puff the Magic Dragon (ummm, best not follow those threads), we were introduced to the breathalyser. Before that, the police had another way to see if a driver was drunk. They would say, 'get out of your car and walk in a straight line.' An inability to do as much was considered evidence of incapacity.
But it is not just alcohol that can influence us to steer a confused and meandering path through life. Diversions and distractions, positive and negative alike, can make us deviate from our missions. The challenge is to remain straight and sober enough to see the difference between what is truly important and what is not.
Let the day be lost to us on which we did not dance once (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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