allergies......

day 16 **someone or something you could definitely live without**

i can live without alcohol.

i had my first drink when i was about 12. blue light disco, summer, my school friends and a cheap bottle of sparkly wine. seemed innocent enough. and it was. for a while.

but alcohol, once my closest friend, my confidante, the trick to getting out of my shell and into the world, turned on me in my late 20s.

i am someone who has a drink and watches the world change. from something that is scary and big and astonishingly difficult to navigate my way around as others appear to do with ease...into a garden of fun and friendship designed just for me. at least that what it looks like.. to me.

what it looks like to everyone else is, they stay the same and i become an obnoxious pain. not always..but mostly.

i am allergic to alcohol. it makes me break out in "geez someone get her out of here"..so i just dont drink..at all..and without it i am free to live...