
I've never (drank? drinked? drunk?) had a drink, done drugs, or smoked. I barely even drink caffeine.
My two vices are sex and chocolate. *grins* Kidding.
Seriously though, I never saw the need to go to something artificial for fun.. I'm 'high on life' and I love it! And anyway, drunk people are funny ;) I grew up watching my parents have fun drinking socially on summer evenings at the campfire (very rarely fall down drunk, and then they'd just go to bed) and while that's fine for them, it wasn't for me and won't ever be. I don't even like the smell of the stuff.
As far as smoking ... yuck! My dad smokes and he stinks! (poor dad. he scares me, I'm afraid he's killing himself). And a close friend of the family died with lung cancer. His youngest daughter was only 12. Heartbreaking.
Drugs, as far as I'm concerned, are dangerous and I'll never take them. I don't even like to take tylenol if I have a headache, unless I need all my faculties and can't afford to sleep for an hour. (Used to make ex boyfriends mad because I wouldn't take something to make the pain in my knee/arm/neck/shoulder/wrist/hand/fingers go away -- but I figure the pain is there for a reason, as a warning sign, and if I block the pain with a drug then I'm liable to damage things further. With pain I can judge what my body needs. Whoops, tangent).
I consider alcohol to be a drug, too; and so is caffeine and nicotine and all that other stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'm not condemning anyone for using/taking any of the above; this is just my opinion and why I won't ever go near the stuff.
So YAY again for those of you who have kicked your bad habits. Good :)
Posted by nightingayle at November 5, 2000 04:38 PM