Moment | Brett Oberhelman

...THE BALANCE POINT...

The balance point is the perfect moment when drinking (more often than not whiskey), where inebriation meets happiness. It's brief usually, but usually you're lucky if you even get it. I am knee deep into a large bottle of whiskey at my friends house, they let me use their computer so I can check my myspace, a dull and meaningless thing to do, especially when everyone else is smoking cigarettes and laughing and listening to TOOL's first album. I can hear it from the room while I'm replying to a message from my friend this girl, I reach over to my side and slide in a cd I brought with me to the house, Smashing Pumpkins. It's a typically depressing cd to listen to, especially when you're drinking, but then just as I put on my favorite song ("1979") an instant message appears across the screen and it's her. We start talking, apparently she'd been drinking a bit too and we found ourselves laughing and smiling with eachother over cyber space, "1979" slowly faded into "Tonight Tonight." I ask her "What music are you listening to?" She says she's listening the exact same cd, it's making me exstatic, and pretty soon I reach the balance point. She says that she wants her wedding song to be "3 Libras" and that when she goes bowling she listens to SlipknoT. At this very moment, my chest and face hurts from laughing and smiling. At this exact moment I am likely either very drunk or very happy, I would like to think both. I wish she was here, I love the balance point...