iamG

I'm not really sure why I'm posting this. It's generally not a great concern of mine, but the more people hear about it - the more intrigued and confused they are.

A little premise to my story. I've lived in Pubs practically my whole life. If I've not been running around one as a child I've been working behind one as an adult. I say an adult, I'm 20 years of age.

I've never drank, or smoked, or been interested in doing drugs. People have criticised it from time to time, some often have gone as far to say that it won't last much longer - some haven't believed me, some consider me weird. I mean, I go out, I generally really enjoy myself, I drink water - but I still have the uncanny ability to make a fool out of myself, impress the odd lady, annoy someone - all sans alcohol. So I've never bothered to care.

It's honestly been so ingraved into my lifestyle that I don't even consider an alternative. If I give it deep thought I can honestly say that I would never want to drink, or get drunk, for good. It's just a whole road I don't wish to go down. I mean, I've had some family issues in the past because of it, and it's almost given me a 'phobia' of being drunk, but to be honest I just don't even sense a feeling of curiosity to even bother being worried about it in the first place.

I think the reason I wanted to post this, was to ask whether or not you abstain from anything in your life, be it chocolate, drugs, you know - things that most likely won't kill you, but you feel better for being without. I know a couple of popular choices would be vegetarianism or veganism - but honestly they have a solid morale backing them and I find that to be a different kettle of fish, almost, to how/why I don't drink.

Anyway, I'm just throwing this out there because I see this is quite an intelligent forum and you can probably respond with some intellectual food for thought.

Ta!