1. People who drink may assume you're judging their alcohol intake.
2. Or that you want to preach about the benefits of being sober.
3. Parties are a strange, socially unlubriacted hell.
4. But once everyone's gotten drunk, you can start to ~loosen up~ too.
5. Dating without rosé-tinted glasses means you can be 100% sure of what you think of the person.
6. You save a decent amount of money when you go to the pub, because non-alcoholic drinks are relatively cheap.
7. So your mates are more than happy to buy your drinks.
8. Because champagne isn't your thing, you've become inventive when it comes to celebrating with a fizzy beverage.
9. And you've probably done "shots" of fizzy drinks so you could participate in drinking games.
10. You'll be met with the odd person incredulously asking "But WHY don't you drink?"
11. And they won't always understand that you're not obliged to answer.
12. When you make a poor life choice, you don't have the "I was drunk" excuse to fall back on.
13. So you have to accept full responsibility for embarrassing stuff you do.
14. You can enjoy waking up after a night out with no hangover.
15. Although you've probably fallen victim to the mysterious "sober hangover" at least once.
16. You've spent a lot of time scouring your town for bars that do mocktails, so you can be sober yet sophisticated.
17. Sometimes you've just ordered a "virgin" version of a random cocktail and hoped for the best, with unpleasant results.
18. And you eventually accepted that on most occasions, a bottle of J2O will have to do.
19. You might have experienced being excluded from social things, because sometimes people think that not drinking = hating bars and pubs.
20. And you have to resist the urge to eye-roll when people complain during "Dry January" and you're faced with all those "I don't know how you do it" comments.
21. People might assume that, because you don't drink, you must be pretty health-conscious in all facets of your life.
22. You've accepted your fate as the designated driver.
23. And you're also a parent to your friends when they've had one too many.
24. When people complain about how expensive a pint is nowadays, you nod along soberly and pretend to relate.
25. And though there can be an expectation to drink in your twenties, you're happy just doing you.
