The problem with people

[andrewducker]

In her own journal, Sana said:

Mission was fun, although i did have a big wibble in my head halfway through when i realised that more and more it seems that my friends can only be happy if they've just been laid or are about to be, are fucked on drugs or are fucked on alcohol.

This is something that's worried me for a long time. It's been a point of derision for drinkers that non-alcoholics say things like "I can have fun when I'm sober." - as if it's not possible to enjoy yourself unless you're drunk. Everyone knows that alcoholism is bad, but how many people think about the fact that binge drinking is a nasty sign - that people feel they can't dance or sing or relax around each other unless they've first knocked out a fair number of their brain cells and reduced themselves to gibbering wrecks.

Now, I can understand that a small chunk of the population might be the kind of person who has neuroses about the public and can't cope with being around people. But apparently the vast majority of the population can't cope with the concept of having fun without alcohol. It's not just bad enough that most people feel that their Friday nights should be enhanced by alcohol - it really seems that the huge proportion of people aren't having fun unless they've drunk enough to stop thinking even slightly. Should it not be a warning to people that they can't have fun unless they're drunk? Should it not be a warning to society that it's members don't feel good unless they're incapable of walking?

We're stuck in a civilisation with a largely-christian hangover, where any example of enjoying yourself is taken as freakish. Try singing to yourself, or dancing while _sober_ and see how many people point and laugh or simply become embarassed that, God forbid, someone enjoy that kind of behaviour without being drunk. How many people do you know who will go to any kind of social event that doesn't largely revolve around alcohol?

Comments

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I'm WAY to serious (most of the time) for (most) people whe sober. They'll just have to bloody well get used to it though, as I'm fed up getting nothing done. Some part of me hates the goody-goody life that has me doing all the washing and making my dinner every night and getting all my exercise done, but then again, when I drink I am not interested in much except more drink, junk food, loud conversations/arguments and sex. There is more to life than that (like gettign my black belt, learning to sail, laearnign to surf, improving my archery handicap, surviving our D&D campaign).

I have often commented that I live in the wrong country to be a non-drinker. I really is the nations drug of choice and has been for a long time.

I'm not even vaugely christian, I have no problem with enjoying myself, it's just that sober, I'd generally rather be doing something physical, or something on my own than sitting round a room/pub with people.

My main problem is that without some sort of drugs I naturally start to fall asleep about 10pm, which is considered antisocial. I had to really struggle to stay awake (failed) and really had to bitch at Sean to get us out of a frien's house a 2am at the weekend (he expressed his displeasure by bitching about my gear-chamning style all the way home). Everybody else was just fine (except one of the other sober people who HAD managed to drag her husband home about midnight).

But hey, I've always been a weirdo, if sobriety is weird, maybe I can hack it!