Leaving school are where the "parties" start, well house parties.
You get taken into the plunge of what everyone is doing and fitting in trying things for the first time.
There's an instant thought as to when you turn 18 you can automatically drink because legally you can, which becomes the main focus of this milestone.
Where really the decision is up to you, how you have a relationship with alcohol.
You don't realise that you open one up from that first sip.
Some use it to escape from the world and numb themselves from what's around them and some go out to have fun and have a laugh with their friends.
Two complete opposites.
Everyone's relationship is different.
Growing up most people get lost in the night life and open themselves to parts of themself that they didn't know.
Alcohol almost makes you vulnerable without control.
Some love it, some people hate it.
I can't say I have ever felt pressured to drink but I know once I have had a few I will want more and it will make me do things I wouldn't normally do.
I get louder and more gigglier which isn't a bad thing but the next day I wake up and think who was that person?
Questioning myself always makes me feel at unease which I don't like it.
Everyone is different but I always say to myself this it is not worth the hangover and most of all hangxiety.
Hangxiety is a whole different ball game.
That feeling of rope wrapped around your chest, makes me feel like it's not worth it and as I have got older I have realised my relationship with alcohol has changed.
I don't add it into my routine every week and every now and then I have a few cocktails when I go out to suit my own anxieties.
A lot of people take it too far, it's a common thing and not bad thing it's having fun.
Letting your hair down we have all done it.
Saying you are living your best life in the clubs and pubs is normalised but can be easily glamorised making you feel like it should look and feel a certain way.
I have had some of the best nights but sometimes I've got to the bar and thought what am I doing here.
It's about not feeling this pressure to be everything and do everything because people around you are doing the same.
I love a good cocktail with my girls and having a boogie.
It's so fun and sometimes what I need after a long week because it's not about the drink, it's the time I spend around people.
Moving to university opened my eyes to what the lifestyle there is like and I loved it at the start but over time it got boring and repetitive.
Balance and prioritise what's going to make you feel good at that time and never pressuring yourself to have a drink.
Even going out and not having a drink is crazy and daring I know right imagine.
It shouldn't always surround alcohol and you can always have fun without it.
You definitely don't need alcohol to have fun because you are you and with the right people you won't feel the pressure to.
Yeah sure it will make everything feel a bit better if you aren't feeling as good as normal but sometimes it opens a hole to overindulge.
Some people love the environment around drinking and everyone is different and you aren't strange for feeling different on a night out.
Little do you know there will be more people than you know that feel exactly the same.
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