Sparkling Water: The ups and the downs

hey there what's up my name is Tommy and today I want to talk about sparkling water I have been through the ropes on this journey of mine into an away from sparkling water and so let me set the scene early May 2024 it's hot I'm camping with some friends at a local Burning Man event and I'm kind of thirsty before this point leading up to this point not only have I disliked sparkling water but iing hate it it's so Bland there's no calories there's no caffeine there's nothing good about it but on this hot day surrounded by friends I thought you know maybe I'll try one and my buddy Bill offered me one and I cracked it and it hit the spot it was it was nice it was like wow I kind of get it now there's no there's no calories there's no aine it's all it's all good there's like no downsides but it still slaps like it's still you know gives you [Music] that that your mouth is wanting and so that was that I started drinking heavily on the sparkling water side of things uh early May into June and man I was really getting it I was doing I was doing s to 10 cans of sparkling water every day like I came home from interfuse and just bought 10 packs immediately filled my fridge I think I even made a Snapchat but here we are about it and it was it was good it was life I I thought it was a life with no downsides and I remember looking up lots of videos like what are the down size of sparkling water and like some people said some teeth sensitivity things and I will tell you after drinking a lot of sparkling water every day I do have some sensitivity in my teeth especially the top left side every once in a while I kind of got some recessed uh gums and so I think that it did kind of come to a point where it was starting to kind of hurt the nerves on my teeth drinking so much sparkling water so after like two months of like hardcore drinking sparkling water I stopped cold turkey and it was it was fine you know it's just sparkling water I really enjoyed it um and around this time period I was like um you know what I should have done a couple years ago I should have invested in sparkling water and I do want to preface just investing in general just because like I I used to come from a standpoint of like the stock market like I don't want to support the old the old way of doing things but the opportunity cost for not investing in the stock market is pretty pretty big there's there is money to be made on the stock market and if you can do some social Arbitrage investing which is basically like all right I got my site set on it seems like the Habit around here is uh people drinking sparkling water I should invest in sparkling water companies [Music] and just maybe maybe just maybe your investment is going to go to the roof and then you can take that money and do good in the world that is the point of investing is not just to make more and more and more money but to do something with that money cuz money doesn't bring happiness people bring happiness so yeah that is kind of one thought I wish I would have done some uh some social arbitres investing in sparkling water but there will be other opportunities to invest in cool things and why do I want to invest in cool things because I want money so I can build straw Bell houses I need money for that kind of thing and it's not easy to fund whole house builds just yet you know we'll see hopefully I can you know I don't know where I'm going with this anyways back to sparkling water loved it for months it was awesome I drank too much of it my teeth started hurting and then just like that the rocket sled of my life hitting the highs of drinking sparking water and then Crashing Down Low giving up cold turkey happened and you know that's just how I like to live my life # Reckless and uh it's been been a good run it's been a good run I do enjoy some sparkling water every now and again so yeah cheers