TheSkaFish
Jedi Guardian
zibafu said:
I understand you. It was a while ago that I was in your shoes. I felt that way about people in college, but then I realized that it was only the people I didn't like, it was only that I didn't like how they acted as if booze was the best thing since sliced bread. It was how alcohol was used as an item of coolness. The more you drank, the cooler you were. It seemed pretty dumb to me.
However, I do enjoy the taste of beer and mixed drinks. But I enjoy them for their own sake, not because I NEED them, nor I am trying to suck up to "the cool crowd". The same way I like juice or chocolate milk or coffee or tea. Either way I've learned to separate the actual beverages from the particular attitude I didn't care for, and now it's fine. I also think drinking is fine if it's something you do while you are doing something else, like having a beer when you are bowling, or at a game or concert or gathering, or to feel refreshed, or just to enjoy for the sake of flavor.
I'm really on the fence when it comes to alcohol. Sometimes I like to listen to some good music, hang with friends, and RAGE. Other times, I drink too much and start to get really introspective, and I just look at myself and think, what the hell am I doing with myself, with my life, is this all I can think of to do? Haven't I been here before? Of all the million billion things there are to do and see in this short life and shorter youth, why this, again?
I'm generally quite a respectful and appropriate drunkard anyway.
