Insanity. The word comes from the Latin insanitas, meaning “unsoundness of mind”. And while it’s often misattributed to Einstein, the quote “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” isn’t actually a formal definition—but it’s a popular cultural take on irrational behavior. At least that's the answer that AI gave me. Where alcohol was concerned, I definitely was strangely insane. Based on repeated occurrences of bad behaviour and even worse results, and despite the fact that things never went as well as I imagined they would, I kept doing it. I often say that during the first ten minutes after my first drink, when I was twelve years old that everything in Bernie's world was just the way Bernie wanted it to be, all the guys were afraid of me and all the girls were in love with me. And I chased after that ten minutes for twenty-nine years and never found that feeling again, but I kept looking. I kept doing the same thing over and over, thinking it would be different and it never was. Finally, at age 41, I stopped.
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