Subject: RE: I'm telling mom!
From: horanp (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 08:51:11 GMT
> I’d certainly make an immediate exception in the case of people
> who’ve had to carry an alcoholic parent & learned thereby
> to loathe the stuff. But otherwise I admit to a certain suspicion
> & uneasiness with the abstemious young. I feel it’s very much like
> communism. If you aren’t one at eighteen you’ve no heart &
> if you’re still one at thirty eight you’ve no brain. Similarly
> with drink. If you aren’t getting legless at twenty you’re being
> a little too careful & if you’re still doing it twenty years later
> you really ought to be looking for the number of the local
> AA meeting.
I would like to also make the point that I am not oin some sort of
crusade against the stuff, nor is it an issue of "my body, my temple"
since I readily (but not regularly) will eat candy and fast food for
breakfast. The stuff just never appealed to me, and I did not want to
start drinking for any other reason besides the fact that I had made a
conscious, independent, autonomous decision to do so. Until then, I'll
try and not get in people's hair about it.
However, I should like to point out that when I have mentioned to people
that I don't drink at all, they suddenly grow very embarrassed and look
down at their shoes, reassuring me that they "don't drink THAT much,
just at a party or something..." and normally trail off. I think a lot of
kids,
college kids especially, know how much they indulge themselves in the
sauce, and are really ashamed of it deep down, but feel better if
everyone else at the party is doing the same. I come back at them,
saying that I was not looking for you to justify yourself at all, and that I
honestly could car less.
Pete.
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