Alcohol

I don't drink.
I don't desire to get drunk.
I can find other ways to be social with friends &/or strangers.

Drinking hasn't devestated my life in as big of a way as it has to other people. I am blessed very much in that way. However, it has been something that came between my very best friend, she was like a sister to me, and I the summer before college.
My friend was an incredible person. She still is, I don't want to rag on here there. Yet, when she started drinking again at the end of our senior year she changed. I couldn't tell her because she couldn't see how she was any different. She claimed drinking didn't get in the way with her relationship with Christ, and she disagreed that as Christians we need to set examples. When I finally confronted her about how I thought it was becomming a problem, she got very defensive and the discussion turned into us not speaking. In the end, we were friends (acquintances more-so) but things were never really the same.

Drinking changes people slowly but surely. I just never felt right about professing to be a believe of Christ and not setting the example. Also, I'm not interested in a substance being in control of my body. I'm too afraid of the consequences to risk it.

Drinking... No thanks :)