Drinking for social inclusion......
September 18th 2007 10:40
I was told few days ago that I should reconsider my drinking position (I don't drink), since I am in Australia and that they drink beer in every occasion. That's an odd statement really. But what does it really hide?
Is alcohol consumption a new way to categorize people? what does it have to do with anything?
As much as I want to answer nothing, it seems that this is far for been true for everybody.
"I do not drink", does that really make a difference? Why do some people push me to drink? Do I ask them not to do so myself?
Even worse actually it seems that it is an obstacle to create links or relationships with some people. Been an non drinker can banish you from been invited to a party or festivities of some sort.... Why? Well good question, I assume because you might be considered as non cool or non funny.
Funnily enough a lot of people who don't know me and see me in a party for the first time, think that I am drunk! Why? Well I guess just because I behave silly and have a lot of fun, at least that what I was told! So what? can you really judge people or categorize them because of stupid ideas?
Plus, really do you think I should drink just because people around me do?
Should I discard my personal belief and my own ideas to be like the crowd?
So people drink a lot in the country I am in, is it a reason to force myself to do so ignoring the effects and damages of alcohol? And what for? For the sake of social inclusion?..... I don't think so!
Drinking doesn't make me more funny or likable or even more extrovert, if people can't see that maybe they should analyze why they drink themselves. And why they want to be surrounded only by people who do.
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