Olivia Foster – who gave up alcohol at the beginning of the year – asks why more of us don’t question our relationship with booze….
birthday. The drink was vodka, bought by a friend’s older brother and snuck into her parent’s summer house. The taste? Awful. The feeling? Even worse. And, two hours after downing what probably amounted to five doubles, I found myself laying on a bunkbed, wasted. On the sofa opposite I watched through blurred vision as two friends carried out a slurred conversation about how if they pushed their eyes in a certain way, they would make a clicking noise.
I can still vividly remember the feeling the next day as I sat morose and unmoving at the kitchen counter trying to eat a bowl of pasta – knowing that from start to finish there had been nothing enjoyable about the experience. But, like most teenagers, I put the story in my back pocket and carried on drinking.
Even still, for the majority of my adult life, I never stopped to truly question if I really enjoyed the experience of drinking alcohol. I was on autopilot, walking myself to a bar week after week, ordering another bottle of Pinot Grigio, and never asking why. Is it any wonder though? Britain’s obsession with booze is well-documented. When I was making my first forays into drinking, ladette culture was in full swing, as I got older a shift told me it was cultured to drink wine with my friends. People who were sober in the public eye were painted as out of control addicts, forced to give up. There was an overriding message that you should be able to drink and enjoy it, and if you couldn’t – you were the problem.
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