Last May I decided that I was going to quit drinking for 1 year. I am now at the year mark and I have decided that alcohol is pretty lame and that I have no desire to consume it.
I find drunk people really stupid seeming and overly giddy and excited in situations that are boring and uninteresting. The visual impression that I get of someone who is drunk is the goofiest looking image that can make a perfectly great looking attractive person into a sloppy goofy mess.
There have been times during this period of no alcohol where I thought about drinking and then decide that I don’t really care for the comedown and hangovers. On the other end of the spectrum, I think that people who drink only 1 or 2 the “responsible” way are so square looking, as if they are too adult. Drinking is like an activity that is enjoyed by older generations and I feel like nowadays more and more younger people like myself are avoiding alcohol and instead engaging in other pleasurable things like smoking weed, recreational sex, fitness, nature, etc. which is far cooler than sitting around like Jimmy Buffet margaritaville making an ass of yourself.
From my experience, being around others while drinking is accompanied by some form of negativity at different severities ranging from mild to catastrophic. Whether a verbal miscommunication turns into a physical violence, verbal assault, sexual assault, misunderstanding, people saying things they later regret, blacking out, falling and hurting yourself, DUI, ruin your career/reputation. I know so many people that have ruined their lives because drinking. There is so much bad shit that can happen to anyone while drinking. It’s ridiculous for anyone to put themselves in a vulnerable compromising situation with alcohol. I used to get drunk and I’m just lucky that nothing devastating has happened to me.
I think drinking is such an overhyped thing and at this point it’s safe to say that I am permanently done with it. Since that time I’ve improved my career, musical talents, fitness, hobbies, diet, and I just look healthier and more attractive. I still have the same friends and social life just without alcohol. Since I smoke weed and laugh a lot i think people forget that I haven’t drank in a year.
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Yes.
>I don’t really care for the comedown and hangovers.
skill issue. I’d probably quit, too, if I had either of those; i get neither of those things.
>From my experience, being around others while drinking
i drink while playing videogames and i live alone nobody has seen me intoxicated in over 15 years; again skill issue
>. Since I smoke weed
Nothing wrong with weed but the weed folks calling out the alcohol folks; everything negative you discovered about alcohol that you personally don’t experience with weed? there are people who experience that same shit with weed that you don’t (the same way i don’t experience your alcohol issues)
I don’t drink either, outside of special occasions (Christmas, weddings etc). In practical terms, two to three times a year and never to excess.
But get TF out of town with this:
On the other end of the spectrum, I think that people who drink only 1 or 2 the “responsible” way are so square looking, as if they are too adult.
So you’re going to condemn the people who drink to excess AND the people who only drink for the drink itself and not for intoxication? AND THEN promote people who get high off weed as morally better than someone who has a single pint or glass of wine at the weekend?!
You sound insufferable.
Yes alcohol does not lead to anything good in many circumstances. My brother and I were just talking it seems like drinking excessively is going a little out of style with the younger generation/crowd. But the younger crowd is not the first generation to enjoy weed, casual sex, nature, and fitness lol
The sobriety high horse lol
idk man.
for a girl with bad anxiety, alcohol is one of the few things that makes situations easier
Use it as a tool not for dependence
Generally agree. I’m older but I had a similar attitude to yours at various points in my younger years. The only thing I’ll say is that being an “adult” having “one or two drinks” in “situations that are boring and uninteresting” can often be a net positive for your social life, family and career. You might not want to limit your social interactions to just smoking weed with your best buds out on a hiking trail, even if you do enjoy that a lot more.
Drug users shaming other drug users is the bane of this society.
I like to have a glass or two of aperol spritz in the evening. Not enough to even get me tipsy, but I love the taste and it’s a nice thing to come down to after the day is done.
Okay but you participate in a separate substance while socializing and that one works for you.
Why say your version is fine and another is lame?
Didn’t read but I don’t drink and have been selling alcohol for about a decade. It’s very profitable and not gonna stop anytime soon.
Ehhhh I’ve cut down from drinking a few days out of the week to only on vacation which is a dramatic change from the past two decades of my life. Drinking was and is fun, it just is. But when I was getting sober, I also experienced an inability to be around drunk people, because they looked stupid.
But, at the end of the day; If you’re fun, it makes you funner. If you’re boring and closed it makes you more open. You get what you put into it. Like, Some people are so dark they want to hurt others when they drink.
I agree wholeheartedly that it is a terrible drug that should really just be banned. But to say it’s not cool and fun , is just a GD lie.
It’s poisoning your body while giving your brain slow synapses.
Yeah, it’s not a positive.
I hate alcohol and now that I think about it, I’m becoming a bit of a teetotaler.
Alcohol has killed the people I love the most.
I hang with ppl who can have a few drinks and go on about their lives w/o falling apart. Nothing against ppl who don’t drink at all, and I try to not associate with alcoholics, because they can be a total fucking drag and buzzkill.
You’re right.
Calm down youngun, you didn’t invent sex for fun :p