Q: hey bill, here's a long one. a week or two ago i was drinking with some friends and i went way overboard, i was pretty much on another planet. at some point this one friend (who in the weeks leading up to this day i had talked a lot to about how friends should be able to open up to each other and all that) and i went to go do something and i guess he was drunk and comfortable enough with our friendship to tell me a deeply personal secret, one that he didn't even tell his therapist or anything. almost as soon as we returned to the rest of the group i unthinkingly blurted the secret out in front of everybody. i immediately apologized and he says that he's gotten over it and forgiven me but i've been having a real hard time trying to get over what a terrible thing i've done and what a terrible person i feel like. do you have any advice for me in this trying time?
A: that's simply the power of alchohol. use it wisely