I do not mean this to be flippant, but Richard Feynman’s—who quit drinking when he thought he might be showing early signs of alcoholism and did not want to risk damaging his brain—wife would ask you this:
What do you care what other people think?
If you are at a bar or a party and you determine that other people are looking down on you for not drinking, why should you care about such silliness? It’s your body and your health and damn people who cannot respect that.
I do not mean this to be flippant, but Richard Feynman’s—who quit drinking when he thought he might be showing early signs of alcoholism and did not want to risk damaging his brain—wife would ask you this:
What do you care what other people think?
If you are at a bar or a party and you determine that other people are looking down on you for not drinking, why should you care about such silliness? It’s your body and your health and damn people who cannot respect that.
Good on you for not drinking.