I always got teased growing up for not drinking or wanting to do drugs. It always made no sense to me. Why would you want to alter your state of mind to where you have barely any control. I've had friends who started drinking after high school and I would hate being around them because it would change their personality and you could tell that they weren't having genuine happiness by being around you, it was just the alcohol. I'd rather be around 2 good friends that are sober and are enjoying life through the good and the bad, than a bunch of drunk people who won't remember what they did with you the next day. I just feel like, if you want to drink alcohol, just don't get drunk. It looks sloppy and you'll end up surrounding yourself with people who have similar problems to the ones you're trying to cover up and they're not going to tell you no, they'll just encourage it. I would rather be drinking something and not have to worry about how much I consume for it to take over my mental state.
I used to get drunk and high, and I was doing it just to be "updated" because I was surrounded by idiots that made me believe that those things were better than real life. In the end I realised that it was their issue, that you can collect positive things from real life and ignore the negative ones. I haven't drunk since and I barely talk to them anymore. My brain is way too precious to get effed up by these bullocks.
