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This author apparently made alcohol consumption the core feature of her personality then quit drinking and made not drinking the core feature of her personality

by astura 2y ago

This author apparently made alcohol consumption the core feature of her personality then quit drinking and made not drinking the core feature of her personality. It's incredibly bizarre. Really strange and not normal. This is especially bizarre - >[Friends] will split into two groups. Those who will find ways to spend time with you without alcohol and those who will keep pressuring you. The second group will split into two groups. Those who stop seeing you and those who start drinking less, because being with you made them realise their own drinking behaviour. What??? This is so friggin weird! Wtf? Is alcohol consumption the ONLY thing that you ever had in common? Nowadays I never drink alcohol in social situations but in my (much) younger years I would drink in social situations if given the chance and I didn't have to drive. I have exactly the same repertoire with exactly the same friends in both drinking/not drinking situations. I'm still (very!) happy to go to bars and drink water, I'll even offer to drive others. Some of my friends are big drinkers, some will have a single beer, some are teetotalers. It's just not a big part of our relationships. Nobody's ever commented on me not drinking or who is drinking or not drinking. I stopped reading this weird shit after that.

Izkata 2y ago
> Nowadays I never drink alcohol in social situations but in my (much) younger years I would drink in social situations if given the chance and I didn't have to drive. This reminds me of something from highschool: One day a teacher had an unexpected absence, and didn't leave any sort of lesson plan for our substitute teacher. The substitute was somewhere around 22, give or take a year, so surprisingly close to our own ages compared to teachers we were used to, and somehow the whole class ended up with her talking about her life in those years between our ages, with plenty of questions from us. One of the questions was about how much she drank, since she was legal age, and her answer surprised some of us: Once she turned 21, she almost completely stopped. At least for her all of the draw was in it being forbidden, and now that she could buy it whenever she wanted she just didn't care anymore. Kinda stuck in the back of my mind and I never started.

by astura 2y ago

Izkata 2y ago

> Nowadays I never drink alcohol in social situations but in my (much) younger years I would drink in social situations if given the chance and I didn't have to drive. This reminds me of something from highschool: One day a teacher had an unexpected absence, and didn't leave any sort of lesson plan for our substitute teacher. The substitute was somewhere around 22, give or take a year, so surprisingly close to our own ages compared to teachers we were used to, and somehow the whole class ended up with her talking about her life in those years between our ages, with plenty of questions from us. One of the questions was about how much she drank, since she was legal age, and her answer surprised some of us: Once she turned 21, she almost completely stopped. At least for her all of the draw was in it being forbidden, and now that she could buy it whenever she wanted she just didn't care anymore. Kinda stuck in the back of my mind and I never started.