Beer, alcoholic, beverages, mocktails, parties, and festivals
Since I have had firsthand what drinking can cause to people and the way one can lose respect within his or her clique or society if he or she is a chronic drunk, I have made a promise to avoid those who drink into stupor or get in a relationship with anyone who drinks and gets drunk, someone who can not do without drinking, so by self-consciousness, once I have a close relationship with anyone, I ask you a simple question, "Do you drink?" and I usually take a closer look at the person to be sure that he or she isn't lying.
I don't judge, just scared, and because I want to be on the safer side and avoid having trauma as a result of losing a friend because he or she got drunk and had an accident, I protect myself. I have had one trauma that is enough to last me for a long time when we were told that my dad lost his life as a result of drinking, so I am not about to go down that lane anymore.
Well, it still doesn't mean that I don't take drinks that have a small percentage of alcohol, I do but that only happens on occasions and I am always careful with the drinks I take, to avoid telling a story that touches the heart.
A few times I have gone out with my friends and felt the need to take a drink that has alcohol, it has only been my preferred drink, and I only take at most two bottles just to satisfy my cravings and that has been it.
A few months ago, while I went to stay over at a friend's house, we had turmoil outside coming from her neighbours, and we decided to go check what it was about. When we got there, we found one of her neighbours who happens to be a guy, on the floor stark naked, and everyone was trying to revive him.
The story was that, his friends who he went out with brought him back home that way, drunk and with no clothes on because he vomited on it and they couldn't get a motorcycle that would want to pick them back home with him soiled and so they had to do something to be able to get him back.
After much work from neighbours, he was stable, so they took him into his room and left him to sleep, while they talked about his sudden behaviour of drinking, with the hope of getting him to talk about what happened to him the next day, but the next morning, when he was asked what happened, he couldn't remember what exactly happened to him, we were all mad at him but it didn't change the reality.
I have seen, people lose their lives due to drinking and getting drunk, I have seen people sleep inside the drainage because they got drunk and didn't know their way around and I am scared of alcohol, so I stay very far from beer or anything that is 100 percent alcohol or anyone who is a chronic drunk.
I do just fruit drink with a small percentage of alcohol that does not harm anyone and I am okay with that, I wouldn't want to experience what others have had to experience just because of alcohol, so I am going to be sticking to just the two drinks you see or maybe when I get to know about a new one, I will try them out but for now, I am okay with the little or two percent (2%) alcohol intake I take.
Thank you for reading!!!