officially sober  whole year since start middle school got close classmates gained bad habits along way got point started drinking twice week especially school nightthats usually expected taking engineering track am got wasted puked  times one night but even still kept drinking started joining cousins whenever drinking well realized ive hit lowest point life so far quit drinking never really liked drink thought would make numb feel ease really gave anxiety getting invited cousins hundreds times drink year rejecting every single time ive finally gotten  whole year without single drop alcohol system ive adopted highprotein diet started working  times week gained kg lbs muscle mass sincei really weak skinny back then started drawingdoing art frequently again started conversing socializing family neighbours cuz im bit sociallyinept introverted felt little confident telling close friends bisexuality nonbelief which little hard especially live country  religious bisexual atheist little bit frowned upon tldr avid drinker stopped cuz like best turn life around feeling better ever since bit context legal drinking age country  rarely practiced regulated almost every street corner theres store sells booze regardless old are sometimes even see cops offering minors drink culturally speaking guess drunk minors tolerated since usually pose threat anyone even usually drink around adult family members