Drink.
The night is young. I’m sitting just outside the house smoking a cigar sipping coffee with Bruce. There’s a drinking session nearby and my friends jokingly invites me to sit and drink with them. Tempting offer, that is If I drink alcohol but I don’t. Well, even if I do, I wouldn’t knowing that someone I really abhor is with them. I just smiled at them and declines the offer, which is the usual reaction they always get from me. I never liked drinking, I easily get drunk and my face painted in red. I feel that being intoxicated is not my way of celebrating any event unless my boss forces me to take a shot then that’s the only time I would be forcing myself to ingest alcohol to my system. That happened once, when we were in Japan stranded in an airport when my manager bought me a mug of draft beer. After drinking half of it, I felt a bit nauseous and my face began turning red and I escaped quickly to the restroom to wash away the heat inside. Anyway, to make the long story short, I finished 3/4 of the draft and inside the plane, I have this really unwanted feeling of sleepiness, nausea and throwing up but I have to get myself together or I’ll be causing a big commotion that might turn the japs into ninjas and start shooting star blades at me. So, I just slept it out for the first 30 minutes of the flight and made it in one dry piece to our destination.
Drinking alcohol can never be found in my dictionary of what to do in my life, I feel that life is too important to miss out on things when you can’t handle your guts because you’re too drunk. But yes, there are times when I have to bend rules in certain circumstances like important business meetings or cocktail parties where I need to show respect or suck up to my bosses. This is what I call political drinking where my career is somewhat on the line and at that moment drinking with them can buy me an ounce of good impression. Like they say: “when in rome, do as the romans do”.
You might think that my life is pretty boring with all this non-alcohol day and night shift happening. It’s not, I do find highs in some other “stuffs” like smoking and playing Magic The Gathering Cards but that’s another story.
Drink moderately.