Sober Life (can you still socialize?)

If you dont want to drink and your friends keep pressuring you to take a shot like you're preteens behind the school, tell them to go **** themselves.
 
Bandit Country said:
I found I could not drink responsibly. The hangovers were lasting three days and affecting my work output and sleep patterns. I gave up binge drinking. I'll have a glass of wine with dinner on occasion, but the days of drinking 25 beers while watching football all day are over. Feels good man.
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Props man, not a lot of people can recognize it let alone have the strength to keep away.
 
i'd actually go out and drink more if i could...

...but driving from the city (where most of my friends stay) back to my area is not the business...
 
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If you have friends that give you a hard time about being sober and don't understand your POV, then you need new friends.
 
I quit drinking a while ago too. If your friends don't support you then drop them. They weren't friends anyway.

I didn't go out at all for a while. Now I'm good but it was awkward at first in a bar or club sober. I don't think anyone else thought anything of it. It is just my mind not used to being places I used to be drunk at not drunk anymore.

Just stick with it. My life is 100% better since I quit sipping. It gets easier with time.
 
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Drugs > friends

real talk
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**** addicts say
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i went out about 3 weeks ago  for the first time in about 4 years and that ish was wack, but then again my friends are boring and are straight up wall flowers.

not to mention they chose small crowded pizza place that turns into a bar at night 
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fat girls walking around with greasy pizza fingers and it was one of those spots where you HAVE to drink to make it fun.

my sober homies who have never touched drugs were first to bounce.

i guess it also helps to make sure you are somewhere fun where you can talk and its not awkward just watching everyone be drunk and sloppy.

the whole time i was just making sure nobody stepped on my timbos.

oh yeah and because i went out  i slept in late and missed the yeezy drop. 
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I'm soo glad that I never really got into drinking but it is funny when I do go to the bar and have no idea what to get. I usually get those fruity drinks. Than I get laughed at. No dambs given.
 
i turn 21 this year but I don't drink that often even in college. Like last time I had something to drink was 2 weeks ago for my friend's 21st. Then before that it was New Years. I don't think I'll really get into drinking.

I used to blaze a lot though, I quit smoking a long time ago because I was using it a lot and I was in a pretty bad shape. Mentally & physically. Over the past year and a half I've been grinding away in engineering school (doing average not great), got 2 meaningful jobs I did not expect to have lined up this month, and I've been lifting at the gym 3 days a week trying to improve my physical fitness. I can't tell you the last time I really thought, "Man I wish I had 2 g's to roll up with and watch a movie." I hate cliches but it's been a 180 from how I was 2 years ago.

If you are willing to socialize you do so because you want to make some sort of connection with someone and you have something in common, maybe it's a job, project, or other activity you do together. Same thing with going out for drinks with someone, you want to better acquainted together. I've made a lot of friends who I don't drink with because I know them from something else that we do together whether its a class or my student org or an event we went to. And it's okay if we don't drink together because we have other reasons for meeting up.
 
respect to those trynna do right...went out with my friends last night, sober life, night was still good, and it wasn't awkward at all. easy transition so far.
 
Go to AA, man. I'm being serious. Trying to do this on your own and then putting yourself in tempting environments just seems like a set up for a loss.
 
kickstart said:
Go to AA, man. I'm being serious. Trying to do this on your own and then putting yourself in tempting environments just seems like a set up for a loss.
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lol it didn't phase me at all to be around these "tempting environments". i don't fiend to drink or smoke. got offered plenty of times last night, and i'm getting smooth at appreciating the offers, but declining and being cool on my own vibe.

It's only a loss if I can't make myself better. Fact is, avoiding a situation, limits myself from being able to enjoy the parts of the environment i still enjoy, (good company, socializing, girls etc.)

I'm the type of guy to face adversity, and I know now that a "tempting environment" is nothing to me. It's like being on a diet, walking by krispy kreme...you got to be mentally strong for temptation to not phase you.
 
only difference for me these days when it comes to being drunk vs sober is my dancing skill.

sober = ted danson

drunk = Usher.

as far as your issues. taking care of you and being around friends who will support your decisions > what yoy been doing.
 
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My group of friends has a friend who doesn't drink or smoke, goes to shows with us and just chills and enjoys himself. You just gotta make yourself try to be social.

I'm not one to talk though. The most i've gone without smoking green in the past 2 years has been like a week, and that was because I was on Vacation and then had my wisdom teeth out.

Heck, I'm really not one to talk, my friend had mollie at this show last night and I took some without hesitation, would again, and also got an adderall from him that I took this morning :smh:

The both of those are only done on VERY rare occasions for me. But I give you full support in quitting. I really need to quit or at least tamper down. I've been trying to game more and fill my free time with that and just think of the money I'd save.
 
I have a sober friend who hangs out with my group. Nothing wrong if you just don't enjoy drinking and/or smoking. I could see how bars could be rough though if it were a packed out place.
 
I've got a friend who used to get too drunk. He's adhering to the sober life now. We still go to bars, sporting events, etc. If you're really friends with the, nothing will change.

Also good to know we have a dedicated designated driver. The folks who do drink can drink even more.
 
I've lived a sober life my entire life. Most of my friends went through the party scene in high school and some of college which made it a little bit different for me being one of the few who never got drunk or smoked. Any of them who didn't support me honestly I'm not really close to anymore and the ones who were cool with it and never gave me a hard time for it I'm really close with. I feel like I probably missed out on some funny stories but a few of my friends have made some big mistakes from it also. I've accepted being the DD and taking everyones money at poker haha.
 
Yes you can. One of my bros, let's call him Ben for anonymity absolutely refuses to smoke or drink for reasons I still don't understand.

Sent a :15 sec video to our iPhone group chat at the start of the spring semester with like 4 6/10s being recorded saying "WE LOVE YOU BEN!" and some random thot in the background twerking 
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Was always lowkey talking to some of the finer thots in our city before he went away for college too. Just be yourself, don't act like you're above those that do drink/smoke, and you should be golden. Pretty much everything he did.

Edit: He also attended all the same parties w/ us and chilled in the same room as us when we had trees. I would consider catching contact still #SoberLife
 
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I need to be on that sober life tip.. Drinking has done a number on my life.

Dude my potential and life advancement would skyrocket if I could get rid of this 7 year demon..
 
What do you guys drink when you go out and stay sober?soda, water? Feel like when I'm out I have anxiety about w here my hands are so I like drink more idk hard to explain .
 
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