Alcoholic drinks has never been my thing since I was a young boy because I loved taking sweet things and was never a fan of taking anything bitter. Alcohol has this bitter taste, and that made it easier for me to avoid due to my not liking a bitter thing from on set.
I was also not a fan of alcohol from on set because I know very well how useless it can make me and how embarrassing it can be for me. So rather than embarrassing myself around, I prefer to just avoid it for my own good. Because I once had a bad experience of taking alcohol when I was quite young.
We had this family get-together at home, and all my families all over the globe came home. It was my grandpa's birthday celebration, and it was a must for all the grandchildren to be around to mark the day. On this day, we were all playing around on the trampoline outside the house, and then my cousin went to meet his dad, with the mind of wanting to take what he was taking.
I wasn't aware of the kind of drink it was, so I assumed it was Zobo. And that was how I followed him the second time to his dad to take what he took the other time with the mindset that it was Zobo. My uncle was not aware that I don't take alcoholic drinks because he lived in the States.
He literally didn't see a big deal in it if I do take alcohol because my cousin of the same age range also takes alcohol, so he didn't have reasons to stop me from taking it. So after my cousin did take it on that very day, I followed with the mindset of taking Zobo. Getting there, I already drank a lot of alcohol before I could even feel the taste of its bitterness. That was to the result of being quite tasty, and it was quite chill.
I later started misbehaving by dancing around with my cousin due to the influence of the alcohol. My parents and siblings were able to find out on time because they knew me to be a very shy person that could barely do such a thing outside the house. The only time you can see me dance then was only when I was at home. And that's because I really did like dancing that year but will always find it hard to dance outside.
On this day, I was sure that even if Michael Jackson was there, he wouldn't have been able to stand me on this particular day...lol. I was dancing like I won a lottery, and that got my parents thinking of what could make me dance that much. I could remember my mom coming closer to me, and that was the last thing I remembered at that point.
I woke up to hearing lots and lots of gist of how I was a superstar dancer and how everyone was literally just staring at me and laughing hard. I felt quite embarrassed and felt like running far away. But then, I found it quite funny afterwards and just looked away, and since then, I just tried to run away from it as a kid.
But then, I can't deny the confidence it gave me to do what I can't do on a normal day with my ordinary eyes. It was funny and weird at the same time. I was just sleeping all day long, and it took me two days to have been able to recover from it's influence. It was quite an experience I didn't want to try again ever since that day. Because I literally came to a conclusion that alcohol is no one's mate.
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