On the Drinking Habits of the Average Young Adult
“Alcoholics” are definitely not anonymous
Some people don’t drink alcohol at all.
Be it for religious reasons or health impediments or just a good old matter of taste the fact is that a large portion of adults of relatively young age don’t ever put a drop of this poisonous delight into their own bodies.
And they are OK with it.
A few of them might get really vocal about this issue, but that’s because people are essentially different. The vast majority will go to a bar with their friends and just order a fizzy drink instead of a pint. That’s all they’re going to talk in relation to drinking for the whole night.
That and, of course, the reason why they don’t drink.
Some people drink a lot and then stop drinking.
This is generally due to the loss of something important in their lives or to the impending loss of something important in their lives or to the closeness they feel to the loss of something essential to their lives — their heartbeat. It doesn’t matter. When these people quit drinking they do whatever it takes to stay as far away as possible from their poison.
And they are sort of OK with it.
A few of them might get really vocal about this issue, some because they need to in order to cope with it and some, again, because people are essentially different. The majority will try to bring up the subject only when they are in a convenient place and surrounded by the right kind of people.
If they must attend a situation where alcohol is abundant the only ones who will hear about their problem are those who care about them.
Some people drink a bit too much, however exclusively in social situations.
They might get drunker than the next man and they certainly get way more wasted than the girl they’re trying to hit on. Some drink themselves to sleep with their friends, always in a kind of controlled way. They call themselves and each other “alcoholics” as a joke.
And that is, albeit frowned upon by some segments of the society, OK.
When this kind of people stop drinking, though, they get really vocal about the issue —and there is no exception here. The vast majority (plus the rest) decide to quit the booze (generally for a month or a “quarantine”) and will never shut up about their new condition until it’s over. Their Facebook page becomes a pictorial countdown to the day they’re gonna be back in the game.
In any conversation there isn’t a topic in which their abstinence from alcohol is not somehow included. And don’t even think of inviting them for a party: they’ll find it outrageous.
