Here is where all you non drinkers can share your experiences, stories or whatever Rocks your boat!!! LOL No need to let peer pressure change your commitment and vow to live a happy, healthy and successful life! No intimidation here- join the many others who live without!!
I’ve only ever had a couple of sips in very controlled situations (New Year’s with my mom, basically)…and I’ve come to culmination of 19 years a happy, (always naturally, never chemically) stress-free life. I believe that my steadfast determination to be substance-free has helped lead me to my success of high marks (A average in high school, awesome SAT scores, etc.) and true friends. I’m proud to consider myself a member of the ‘Cool 17′.
I just would like to share that I have never drank before. Part of it is because my father is an alocholic and I am diabetic. Most of my friends drink. They drink on Friday and Saturday nights. I do have some that were drinking quite a bit. They try to get me to drink but I have never had a sip. Not to say it hasn’t been tempting but I knew with my fathers condition I didn’t want to chance it. I am 18 and a freshman in college so I still have some years of the pressure. But I have learned that there are more and more people that respect me for the choice not drink than to drink. When they try and get me to I respond to them by saying well at least I will remember what happend tonight. So I am proud to be a member of the ‘Cool 17′.
I haven’t ever had a drink of alchol. I am a sophomore in college I have made a promise to myself when I was younger that I will never have a drink until I was 21. I grew up with a father who was an alcholic which is a big inspiration to me not to drink. I do hang out with my friends sometimes when they are drinking but they know that even if they try and offer it to me that I will always say no. When we go out they don’t even ask any more they just know that I will always be the dd. I at least feel better when I go out with them because they at least have a dd to go out with them.
Well, I’ve never tasted and alcholic drink and swallowed it, and any time I did try it, it was at family occasions where I was under supervision by my mother. But I like what Sheila wrote. Because she said the exact same thing that I would say to my friends back in Tech School who asked why I didn’t drink. Cause I actually remember the fun I had the night before. Plus, people who get wasted, and then tell a story of waking up next to a naked girl, or guy, who they don’t even know their name… that doesn’t impress anyone. That just tells me that a person has no self-control to be able to stop themselves from doing something potentially deadly to themselves and others. Anyway, that’s all I have to say. Have a great night and a pleasent tomorrow.
Clifford “Crazy” 80
I started drinking @ age 12.(I come from a big Hunting(Redneck) family) I only drank with my family, and usually only at the cabin. But then I started drinking more at home, and more by myself. I didn’t like where my life was going and my grades were starting a downhill slide. When I was a senior in high school I asked out my best friend and we started dating. She is someone that i love with all my heart and she was my reason to give up drinking. She hates alcohol…period. I stopped drinking on May 5, 2005. Since then I haven’t had any alcoholic beverages. My grades have recovered and are even better than they use to be. One other side note is I am my college football team(which football players are stereotypically big drinker) and i often get picked on for not going out to parties and drinking with the team but, i sit back and laugh when the grades come in at the end of the semester and I am on the deans list, and they are struggling to remain eligible.