On Drinking

Most of my friends drink — or at least have been drunk before. Me? I’m a drinking virgin. At times I wonder if I should try drinking – I mean, people look like they’re having so much fun.. right? So what stops me?

The taste of alcohol doesn’t appeal to me much. ^_^ Just because I’ve never been drunk doesn’t mean I’ve never tasted any. Its flavour distinctly reminds me of the smell of burnt rubber and the products we used to use at my mom’s nail care salon.

And as for the effects… First of all, I’m not quite sure the effects are worth the bitter taste… Plus… What are the effects, really? You lose a little control over your body… Your inhibitations are gone… I wonder why it’s so pleasurable to humans to have so little control…

Yet, alcohol and narcotics have been a part of almost every culture for thousands of years… Probably since time began… When the first man ate a mushroom that made him say “Whoa…”… So it must, to a certain extent, have some merit… Or else we would have not kept these as part of our society, right?

But then, there are laws against people my age drinking. There must be a reason for that. I mean, why would the law prohibit something if it was simply a part of the culture? I suppose you could look at it in the same way as porn is outlawed in Japan –there’s still a lot of it, and it’s still a part of the culture, they just have to be more discreet about it… However, in America things are a bit looser than that, right? So why not legalize alcohol to children at a younger age, like in most countries?

With all this in mind, though, and looking forward to the freedom of college in less than a year… I don’t think I’ll start drinking anytime soon. Maybe I’m wrong. ^_^* Maybe I’ll be eating my words next year… Hah. I really don’t know. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.