When you\'re young you want to find out what alcohol is all about so you start drinking. Invariably you drink too much, and get drunk. That\'s ok as long as you\'re at a party or at home so you don\'t try to drive or operate a backhoe or something. Your judgement\'s imparied when you\'re drunk so you KEEP drinking. You figure, "this is cool, so if this much got me drunk, then more must be even better." Unfortunately it doesn\'t work that way, and you get sick. It takes experience to learn exactly how much alcohol it take to reach the optimal level of drunkeness, and when to stop drinking. Young people don\'t have the experience. You have to learn that there\'s always alcohol in your stomach that hasn\'t been processed yet, so you actually have to stop a little BEFORE the optimal point.
Eventually after a few years you realize that simply being drunk is not the greatest thing. Sure you might get drunk at the occasional party, but being drunk often sucks because you disappoint friends, turn off girls, waste money, look like an idiot, and maybe worse things. I\'m in my 30s and I rarely get drunk anymore. Just getting a buzz when I feel like it is fine.
So what I\'m saying is that you\'re actually ahead of your friends if they drink just to get drunk. You say you don\'t like alcohol, but I think that\'s because you haven\'t tried it prepared properly. People who drink straight liquor do it just to get hammered. That\'s dumb. You should find someone who knows how to make a proper cocktail and drink that to find out whether you like Scotch, Rum, Burbon, Vodka, etc. You will probably find that you don\'t hate it after all. Cocktails in most bars and clubs are awful because they use cheap ingredients or cheat you on the alcohol content.
