A Tongue Twister of Lies

I tried to drown my sorrows, but they still come up for air.
How can a person compete when he or she can never compare?
It is such a thin line of what we should do and what we should not. 
How do we decide what we ought to do, and what we ought to not?
You may say it's a tongue twister, but nevertheless it is very much true.
You never really know anything unless it happens directly to you.