Responsible Drinking vs. Party Drinking?

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Responsible Drinking vs. Party Drinking?

I've seen wild parties before. I used to go to them and hear my friends planning about all their drinks. They applauded me for being a non-drinker, "Good for you!"

Most of my friends party seemingly like every weekend and pretty hard. I don't go to nearly any of them. (It's kind of funny these are ALL of my friends, which is more than a 'couple people,' and I somehow am attracted to girls who end up being straight edge, which I LOVE.)

Not being a drinker, you can perhaps imagine the decline of invitations I've gotten to parties. Even my best friends seem to forget, but I'm not the kind of guy to be "difficult".

New Year's Day of this year is when I started drinking. There were some beers left over from my house. All of my friends were out at various parties and didn't respond to my attempts to hang out that night (no matter how awesome they claim I am in non-party situations with my jokes).

I don't drink until I'm drunk, just a few to ease my boredom of sitting in my room, alone, all of the time (because they seem to have forgotten me now, except for the occasional random event).
Otherwise, I'm just sitting there doing literally nothing, not even listening to music (I don't know much, and I don't care or have the patience for a lot of it).

On top of that, my family is really annoying compared to the things I've seen with my friends. I've talked several girls down from suicide on the spot. I could go into more gruesome details, but I don't feel it's appropriate.

I just want quiet, slow, sophisticated adult time, and my step sisters are always running around complaining about everything, leaving a mess -- food on the couch, they put yogurt cups with the dirty dishes when that is clearly trash. I don't yell at them; I just try to clean it and hope they learn it'd be a good idea to follow my lead. Just trying to communicate with them stresses me out where I'd rather sit in my room than bypass them to go out anywhere. And thus, I'm stuck in my room again and wanting to drink.

(It's not like I'm some depressed, no fun guy. My friends have no idea, know me as a jolly, up-beat hilarious comedian. I was surely going to take the year's Homecoming Queen to Prom -- but I decided to be the nice guy and asked my best friend to go with me when she was sad she didn't have a date. But within the two hours of that happening, she ended up finding a date. Awkward!)

So with this story, I ponder, do you think this is responsible drinking or not? Any comments? I don't have much better to do. Do you?

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	nathan	15-Aug-07

I know how you feel, I'm alot like you. Most of my friends like to party (mostly everybody at my school parties) and all I do is sit at home, bored. They hang out with me during the weekdays and some weekends, but once the parties start they seem to forget who I am. I don't drink, I don't see any reason to. You get drunk, make a jackass out of yourself and feel like crap the next morning, not my idea of . I one of the VERY FEW people that doesn't drink at my school, all I ever heard on Monday was "Man, that Everclear was awesome!" or "I was so plastered on Saturday!". I don't really find that something to be bragged about, but oh well. If you want to drink because you're bored, then go ahead. Just try to find something else to do before you turn to drinking, but don't make it a habit, that's what will get you.

	~~Crystal~~	02-Aug-07

Yeah, you shouldnt drink because your bored. If that was the case then I would be a drunk . I dont have nothing to do at all either. I've went through alot of really hard times this past month but I wont ever turn to drinking. My dad and brother are both alcoholoics and I hate it. My brother drinks because he has bad nerve problems. He always sits in his room alone and drinks. I cant stand it when he gets drunk because hes one of those real mean drunks and I have to put up with it every day. My dad just drinks for nerves too and hes addicted, but hes not really mean hes just annoying. Drinking ruins in my family and I will never turn to it for my problems and I have went through ALOT just recently. You sound like a pretty guy so you should stay that way before you get addicted and let it ruin your life. Take it from me I have watched to many people let drinking take over their life and hardly anyone wants anything to do with them anymore.

	Gina	19-Jul-07

if you drink when you're by yourself because you're bored.. then thats definitely not responsible because its soooo much easier to become an alcoholic in that situation rather a party situation because parties are usually limited to weekends, except for the thirsty thursday parties, but drinking by yourself can happen anyday at any time and because there is that huge opportunity to do it, there's a better chance you will do it more and more.. therefore becoming quite a huge problem.... start calling your friends on weekends and tell them you are ready to PARTY and have a good time... instead of sittin at your house, go party