Not drinking is not easy, especially that age. I stpped drinking when i was almost 30. I thought that’s just a thing that you’re not doing, no big deal. A lot of people find it VERY weird. You wouldn’t believe the conversations i had especially with drunk people. “You don’t drink? Like never?” “Never ever?” “But how?”
I had to literally explain to people what i do instead of drinking and how to order a water in a bar. Ot that a glass of wine is also alcoholic, that i know i can drink a beer and still drive, that one glass is okay, that i don’t care how “good” it is, that i don’t drink even if you don’t even taste the alcohol. It never ends. And just like religion, you can’t just say because it’s dumb and you’re kinda proof of it right now.
I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.
He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!
Not drinking is not easy, especially that age. I stpped drinking when i was almost 30. I thought that’s just a thing that you’re not doing, no big deal. A lot of people find it VERY weird. You wouldn’t believe the conversations i had especially with drunk people. “You don’t drink? Like never?” “Never ever?” “But how?”
I had to literally explain to people what i do instead of drinking and how to order a water in a bar. Ot that a glass of wine is also alcoholic, that i know i can drink a beer and still drive, that one glass is okay, that i don’t care how “good” it is, that i don’t drink even if you don’t even taste the alcohol. It never ends. And just like religion, you can’t just say because it’s dumb and you’re kinda proof of it right now.