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Been playing Tetris tonight. Everyone else went out. I'm waiting to hear what the uni decide on my hardship loan application before i spend anything i can avoid.
I like Tetris. You can concentrate on the blocks and relax, or play on autopilot and take some time to think.
But i also like going out and enjoying myself with my mates. And you can only play so much Tetris.
Got to thinking about the time back in the first year of uni when i was off the drink for a couple of months. Started off for medication, but i kept it up for a while after too.
Going out and drinking. Always drinking. I don't like that feeling like you have to drink to enjoy yourself. Feels too much like an alcoholic's predicament. No control, and no happiness without drugging yourself out.
But being the only sober one is no fun either, isloated from the ineberated stumblings of your mates, and being responsible to try to keep them out of trouble. Hardly a great night out.
So you go out and drink, or you do something else, often alone. There's only so much fun you can have before the loneliness and boredom kicks in. Maybe a few nights, weeks or months, but eventually you'll have had enough.
So over time, if all your mates go drink, you can find drinking to be the only real way to avoid an evening of unhappiness. Ie, you have to drink to be happy. And we're back to the alcoholic's predicament.
So is the drink a tool you can use to enjoy yourself?
Or does its monopoly on social life mean that, to rip off someone else's metaphore, it's really the bottle (or the brewery companies?) that drinks from you? Another dependant, another animal on the farm, getting milked every saturday night.
I look at the lack of choice i've been given in the matter - drug myself up or be lonely - and lean towards the second way of thinking.
Which makes me want to escape the farmer's control.
So i've been playing Tetris tonight. And there's only so much Tetris you can take.
I like Tetris. You can concentrate on the blocks and relax, or play on autopilot and take some time to think.
But i also like going out and enjoying myself with my mates. And you can only play so much Tetris.
Got to thinking about the time back in the first year of uni when i was off the drink for a couple of months. Started off for medication, but i kept it up for a while after too.
Going out and drinking. Always drinking. I don't like that feeling like you have to drink to enjoy yourself. Feels too much like an alcoholic's predicament. No control, and no happiness without drugging yourself out.
But being the only sober one is no fun either, isloated from the ineberated stumblings of your mates, and being responsible to try to keep them out of trouble. Hardly a great night out.
So you go out and drink, or you do something else, often alone. There's only so much fun you can have before the loneliness and boredom kicks in. Maybe a few nights, weeks or months, but eventually you'll have had enough.
So over time, if all your mates go drink, you can find drinking to be the only real way to avoid an evening of unhappiness. Ie, you have to drink to be happy. And we're back to the alcoholic's predicament.
So is the drink a tool you can use to enjoy yourself?
Or does its monopoly on social life mean that, to rip off someone else's metaphore, it's really the bottle (or the brewery companies?) that drinks from you? Another dependant, another animal on the farm, getting milked every saturday night.
I look at the lack of choice i've been given in the matter - drug myself up or be lonely - and lean towards the second way of thinking.
Which makes me want to escape the farmer's control.
So i've been playing Tetris tonight. And there's only so much Tetris you can take.
It's peer pressure.
Takes more to say "No thanks" than it does to go along just for the sake of it.
All of my mates know I'm not a massive drinker and don't give me any grief about it - because it doesnt matter.
And I'm quite happy to be designated driver for them, I get my cokes bought and I dont pay for rounds cos it's hardly fair for a non-drinker to be spending £10+ per round.
Works out all-round lovely ta.
Takes more to say "No thanks" than it does to go along just for the sake of it.
All of my mates know I'm not a massive drinker and don't give me any grief about it - because it doesnt matter.
And I'm quite happy to be designated driver for them, I get my cokes bought and I dont pay for rounds cos it's hardly fair for a non-drinker to be spending £10+ per round.
Works out all-round lovely ta.
Dr Duck wrote:
> Going out and drinking. Always drinking. I don't like that feeling
> like you have to drink to enjoy yourself. Feels too much like an
> alcoholic's predicament. No control, and no happiness without drugging
> yourself out.
> But being the only sober one is no fun either, isloated from the
> ineberated stumblings of your mates, and being responsible to try to
> keep them out of trouble. Hardly a great night out.
I know this feeling, I'm the same, though my mates do respect the fact I don't drink. People always have this excuse that you've got to drink to meet people, and its like you only talk to people because of what the alcohol does to you. I don't need stuff like that to enjoy myself. During the World Cup most pubs showed matches and opened early, whilst fans thanke them for it. Stupid really, they only opened early to sell drinks for longer.... Whats worse is that even at most Universities, especially during freshers, all the activities revolve around drinking and clubbing. If you're one of the small percentage who don't like doing that then you're branded as a 'misery' and 'geek' e.t.c.
Endless times during my course people use the excuse of being drunk/sick from drinking e.t.c. as to why they haven't done work for group tasks. I don't care, and I don't see why I should, people laze around complaining about the effects of the night before like we should give them sympathy or something....
So...my night's out this year can be counted on two hands, but I don't care, and if anyone else is bothered by that then I don't really care either, because I'm happy. Its like you're supposed to be miserable if you don't party every night, well just because my idea of fun doesn' involve over priced alcohol / cheap booze, loud music and drugs doesn't mean I can't have fun doing other things instead.
Great topic BTW :)
~~Belldandy~~
> Going out and drinking. Always drinking. I don't like that feeling
> like you have to drink to enjoy yourself. Feels too much like an
> alcoholic's predicament. No control, and no happiness without drugging
> yourself out.
> But being the only sober one is no fun either, isloated from the
> ineberated stumblings of your mates, and being responsible to try to
> keep them out of trouble. Hardly a great night out.
I know this feeling, I'm the same, though my mates do respect the fact I don't drink. People always have this excuse that you've got to drink to meet people, and its like you only talk to people because of what the alcohol does to you. I don't need stuff like that to enjoy myself. During the World Cup most pubs showed matches and opened early, whilst fans thanke them for it. Stupid really, they only opened early to sell drinks for longer.... Whats worse is that even at most Universities, especially during freshers, all the activities revolve around drinking and clubbing. If you're one of the small percentage who don't like doing that then you're branded as a 'misery' and 'geek' e.t.c.
Endless times during my course people use the excuse of being drunk/sick from drinking e.t.c. as to why they haven't done work for group tasks. I don't care, and I don't see why I should, people laze around complaining about the effects of the night before like we should give them sympathy or something....
So...my night's out this year can be counted on two hands, but I don't care, and if anyone else is bothered by that then I don't really care either, because I'm happy. Its like you're supposed to be miserable if you don't party every night, well just because my idea of fun doesn' involve over priced alcohol / cheap booze, loud music and drugs doesn't mean I can't have fun doing other things instead.
Great topic BTW :)
~~Belldandy~~
Been playing Tetris tonight. Everyone else went out. I'm waiting to hear what the uni decide on my hardship loan application before i spend anything i can avoid.
I like Tetris. You can concentrate on the blocks and relax, or play on autopilot and take some time to think.
But i also like going out and enjoying myself with my mates. And you can only play so much Tetris.
Got to thinking about the time back in the first year of uni when i was off the drink for a couple of months. Started off for medication, but i kept it up for a while after too.
Going out and drinking. Always drinking. I don't like that feeling like you have to drink to enjoy yourself. Feels too much like an alcoholic's predicament. No control, and no happiness without drugging yourself out.
But being the only sober one is no fun either, isloated from the ineberated stumblings of your mates, and being responsible to try to keep them out of trouble. Hardly a great night out.
So you go out and drink, or you do something else, often alone. There's only so much fun you can have before the loneliness and boredom kicks in. Maybe a few nights, weeks or months, but eventually you'll have had enough.
So over time, if all your mates go drink, you can find drinking to be the only real way to avoid an evening of unhappiness. Ie, you have to drink to be happy. And we're back to the alcoholic's predicament.
So is the drink a tool you can use to enjoy yourself?
Or does its monopoly on social life mean that, to rip off someone else's metaphore, it's really the bottle (or the brewery companies?) that drinks from you? Another dependant, another animal on the farm, getting milked every saturday night.
I look at the lack of choice i've been given in the matter - drug myself up or be lonely - and lean towards the second way of thinking.
Which makes me want to escape the farmer's control.
So i've been playing Tetris tonight. And there's only so much Tetris you can take.
I like Tetris. You can concentrate on the blocks and relax, or play on autopilot and take some time to think.
But i also like going out and enjoying myself with my mates. And you can only play so much Tetris.
Got to thinking about the time back in the first year of uni when i was off the drink for a couple of months. Started off for medication, but i kept it up for a while after too.
Going out and drinking. Always drinking. I don't like that feeling like you have to drink to enjoy yourself. Feels too much like an alcoholic's predicament. No control, and no happiness without drugging yourself out.
But being the only sober one is no fun either, isloated from the ineberated stumblings of your mates, and being responsible to try to keep them out of trouble. Hardly a great night out.
So you go out and drink, or you do something else, often alone. There's only so much fun you can have before the loneliness and boredom kicks in. Maybe a few nights, weeks or months, but eventually you'll have had enough.
So over time, if all your mates go drink, you can find drinking to be the only real way to avoid an evening of unhappiness. Ie, you have to drink to be happy. And we're back to the alcoholic's predicament.
So is the drink a tool you can use to enjoy yourself?
Or does its monopoly on social life mean that, to rip off someone else's metaphore, it's really the bottle (or the brewery companies?) that drinks from you? Another dependant, another animal on the farm, getting milked every saturday night.
I look at the lack of choice i've been given in the matter - drug myself up or be lonely - and lean towards the second way of thinking.
Which makes me want to escape the farmer's control.
So i've been playing Tetris tonight. And there's only so much Tetris you can take.