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With my dad being a social drinker and my mom being a regular drinker (I wouldn't call her an alcoholic though; she rarely tries to get drunk), I've grown up around alcohol...and until about this time last year, I had been scared crapless about the dangers of it. Then, last year (I was 17), I gave it a go and got drunk for my first time with some friends. At about 3:00 in the morning, I tried to tackle my friend for whatever reason, missed, and dove head first into a wall of rocks.
The next thing I knew, about ten minutes later I was on my friend's couch (that's now covered in blood) while my friend's mom was wiping my head wounds and one other friend was mopping my blood off the kitchen floor.
When I woke up the next morning, I remembered something very bad; my friends had been recording us on videotape most of the night. We all sat down in my friend's livingroom and watched me make an ass out of myself in assorted ways: on the topic of one of my friends I said "Why the hell won't she play with my melons?!?", I jumped deep into the woods down a hill because my friends told me that my football coach was coming, stumbling everywhere...you name it. They didn't catch me missing my tackle though, which is good.
I vowed right then and there to never to get drunk again. I still drink occasionally, but if I ever get to the point of buzzing I stop ASAP because I get scared of gettin' that way again...
...Plus, to add on top of it all (and to get back on topic as well), my friend's mom who was helping me works with my dad, so about three weeks later my dad just casually brings it up, then jokingly rips into me about making a foold out of myself on camera. He didn't punish me, just kinda belittled me in a playful way to make me understand I can't be irresponsible like that. My mom is kind of shocked that I drink at all, but she's cool with it as long as I'm responsible. I feel like I'll be the same way when I'm a parent though, so I suppose that's my stand on it.
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle
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