The author Juha Vuorinen says in the Aki Linnanahde Talk Show podcast that the happiest times in life were outside the rush hour.
Author Juha Vuorinen56, quit alcohol in 2008. Now he’s reminiscing Aki Linnanahde Talk Show -podcast, how after the decision to get sober, a mistake happened during the filming of the TV show.
– It was Yleisradio’s Christmas supervisors, we sat at the Christmas table. It was a discussion program and mulled wine was brought to everyone. They asked who takes with alcohol and who without. The recording started, I take the drink to my lips and throw it at the board. There must have been double slippers thrown into that portion of mine, Vuorinen recalls.
Only a moment had passed since the decision to quit, and it was the first time that Vuorinen tasted alcohol after this.
– It was a terrible situation. Suddenly I felt as if electricity had been pulled through my body. I started to feel dizzy and I felt terrible, the author continues.
During a break in the recording, the waiter apologized to Vuorinen for mixing the glasses of mulled wine. In the end, the injury only confirmed that the decision to get sober had been the right one.
– That’s when I realized that this is over. It became such a powerful mental antabuse that it hit you in the jaw.
– It took me the entire recording of the program to get the taste of booze out of me. That’s when I realized that okay, by the way, this decision I’ve made is deep down.
Little hulabaloo years
Vuorinen tells presenter Aki Linnanahte that even before his decision to quit, he lived the happiest times of his life “outside the tubes”.
– When I started smoking, my purpose was to drink my head off because I had worked so hard and dragged myself into a dead end.
Even though the effects of alcohol use were terrible both in terms of money and relationships, Vuorinen says that there were few “hulabaloo years” in the end.
– At that point, I had already drunk my affairs to hell that I realized, this is not my thing. Everything was messed up, relationships, everything, he sums up.
Linnanahde asks if Vuorinen had the feeling during the pipelines that everything would be under control after all.
– There was no illusion whatsoever about that. I thought afterwards that how… It’s a wonder I didn’t die on those sets. Because that way was the same frenzy with which I have written. If you act with a similar frenzy, you will destroy yourself. Of course, many drunks like to embellish things, but I thought it was really sick.
Juha Vuorinen says that he stopped drinking when he got bored of himself. PEKKA KARHUNEN/KL
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