The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
A solution is to stop revolving your life around alcohol. I was blessed with an upbringing in a family and culture that didn’t show alcohol and I suddenly found myself 25 years old without ever having drunk a sip except in rum-n-raisin ice cream. I was able to make the choice very easily to go the rest of my life without it.<p>Whether it’s work outing or friends gathering, I just pass if it’s supposed to be in a pub. Heck, I don’t even own pants or shoes worthy of wearing to a pub if I needed to.<p>Yet I feel I haven’t missed out on much and gained many other things.  My friends now meet me during the day. The conversations are more memorable and deep and happen at coffee shops, restaurants or on our way to those places. Or if I’m particularly in a good mood I suppose a park.<p>As an outsider my opinion is that nothing good has come to humanity from the presence of alcohol. It is the worst drug to have invaded our history and that’s saying a lot given every other drug there is. And I’m not just talking about the deaths it causes.