Last Updated on August 3, 2023

The introduction 

I started drinking when I was about sixteen. The local grocery store would sell me and my friends 40 ouncers underage. My friends would hang out and drink our parents didn’t notice or care. It started as a once-in-a-while event to a once-a-week affair, then progressed into every-weekend drinking by age 25.

The Happening

We would go to parties and sometimes drive drunk, not thinking about whether we could get a DUI. Or even worse, get into an accident and possibly die. I admit they were good times; however, I wish we had done it without the alcohol. 

Sometimes I think I got into drinking simply because I wanted to get beautiful women, and I thought it made me cool. Or it could be something more profound, like my father being a professional alcoholic. 

The realization

Drinking is not cool, and I wish I had spent my time doing something more productive. I wish I dared to talk to that girl without alcohol and dance without being drunk. Despite all the things I wish I didn’t do while intoxicated.

Alcohol has a horrible effect on your mental development, according to research. All the risks that were taken, the impaired judgment, all the wrong decisions, and wasted nights of thinking I was fulfilled, but I was just drunk and depressed. If only I could go back and change my drinking habits.

Youngins 

When you are young, you think you have all the time in the world. But in reality, time flies by faster than you can blink. With alcohol, you think you are not on top of the world, but the world is on top of you. Don’t waste your time drinking, and set yourself up for success. 

Instead of going to a party, read tons of books and get into a good college so life could be more straightforward, realistic, and enjoyable.

Alcohol puts your mind in a trance and messes up your judgment over time. It makes you stupider and unlikely to succeed. It is much better to wake up and remember what you did last night than to wake up with a hangover.