My Thoughts of Alcohol

I have never tried alcohol, so this post comes from one's view of this substance.

I was asked one time why I don't drink. I told him that I didn't know. Which is partially true, but I think I have a pretty good understanding why I don't. I look back on that time, and I wish I would have said what I'm about to say now.

This is what I would have told him:

"What's the point? What good has come out of alcohol? I know more people who drink than I know people who don't. Is it really that amazing? I see myself as a very curious fellow, but this is one thing I can live without trying. I think. Then there's this thing that I've heard be called "a buzz," this good feeling you get when you drink. Is that why people drink? I ask a lot of questions that I could probably answer myself if I tried it, but that would only be my opinion. I think others drink for different reasons.

Another reason has to do with my religion. In the Bible it labels drunkeness as being a grave sin. That's just drunkeness, so just drinking a little probably isn't bad, but whether drunkeness is a bad sin or not, I still think it's a bad thing. Even over indulging in alchol has to be bad. Isn't that considered gluttony? And isn't gluttony one of the seven deadly sins? I think it is. One more thing. Your body is the temple of God. You should take care of it and not poison it with such things.

Finally, my last reason is it's effects on the mind. Getting so bad that you lose control of your actions, and can't remember what you did the night before. That sounds terrible to me, but to others it sounds like a good time. People who get behind the wheel of a vehicle who think they are fine to drive and end up getting in a wreck killing a whole family and themself. Sure, that doesn't happen all the time, but I think it happens often enough to make it a serious thing. Why do this to yourself? I just don't understand."

That is what I think about alcohol. And I realize most of it deals with over indulging in it though.
I don't know why I had the urge to post this.