‘Can I have a sip of your champagne Daddy?’
The father contemplates the request. What’s in a sip? One sip isn’t going to damage their brains, a sip is harmless!
‘Alright go on then’
Most recovering alcoholics won’t even risk a sip.
They’ve learned the hard way that there is no such thing as one innocent sip.
One sip and the night is gone.
One sip and they wake up penniless in an alleyway.
One sip and years of hard work goes to waste.
For them a sip is the first step on a slippery slope that eventually leads to regret.
The thing you can see ‘one sip’ equivalents in other aspects of life.
Just one bite, one video, one little break.
It’s infinitely harder to fight temptation after one sip, better not to sip at all.
Thomas Duggan 