Well, I guess I have seen a lot of people around me drink alcohol, some of them even in generous quantities… I have had a taste of tequila myself, but I do not drink alcohol as such. I have been asked by people to have a taste of/drink alcohol(of a different kind), but then I have decided to wait till I am legal to drink, that is 21 years of age in India.
It would seem that I am holding back from drinking for some dumb legal rule, but then I never really felt the urge to drink alcohol, even if people around me were drinking. Also, I do not feel that the rule is dumb. There must be some reason why people chose 21 as the minimum age for consumption of alcohol legally.
After seeing almost all of my friends drinking (or hearing that they have started drinking socially), I thought that there might be something wrong with me. So I checked the result of some survey, as to why people drink alcohol…From research conducted in the Netherlands among 15 to 25 year-olds, the following answers came up:
- Sociability (71%)
- Like the taste (51%)
- Feel at ease (12%)
- Get intoxicated (6%)
- Get drunk (2%)
- Because everybody does it (6%)
- To forget problems (0%)
It was then that I realized that there is nothing really wrong with me, its normal to not feel like drinking alcohol.
