I never got into it and I feel like I'm missing a huge social part of my life. I've tried alcohol and it just tastes bad. Maybe if I had enough to get inebriated I'd feel different, but so far nothing about the experience of drinking has been good. Also I grew up around Baptists who don't have drinking in the culture, so maybe that's part of it? My parents never had alcohol in the house and there was never beer/wine at family gatherings. I never even saw a full glass of beer in person until I was like 23.
Bars are too loud and there's too much expectation to drink, parties have the same problem, drinking at home alone sounds sad. I go to concerts and I'm the only person without a huge glass of beer. People hand me drinks and I'm like "nah" and they get mega confused.
What do I do
Is this the opposite of a problem?
I hate drinking and people who drink in the same vein I despise people who smoke [mostly people who smoke shitty tobacco] indoors or in communal public spaces. It's also a huge turn off for me for any romantic partner/s.o.
rant about drinking
The first drunk person I interacted with was my Dad who was yelling random shit to my mom so yeah my opinion of people who drink isn't very high. It takes a huge part of me not to be a complete asshole to those who do. I went to a bar for the first time recently and it was a shitty experience where my peers kept doing expensive shots and dancing to extremely loud music that you couldn't even talk over.
Bars are a horrible social space and further proof of capitalism's ability to eradicate alternative healthier spaces and have workers drink themselves to death the same way smoking was ubiquitous (at least in America) until corpos couldn't hide the lung disease aspect of it.
At least I live in the US of A and not in the also shitty global north nations of Japan and South Korea where drinking is worshiped as ritual. So I can count myself lucky.
dancing is fun though???
Ear bleeding music and drunk people are not.