I miss going out with my girl friend, drinking ice cold champagne and Patron by the pool at Forbes and getting shitface smashed then still hit random drinking spots after without worrying about anything except how big our bill will be, how we were gonna drunk drive home and how much Tylenol or any hangover-quelling pills to shoot the morning after.
I miss drinking after class at 11 or 11:30 in the morning, how one “where are you?” text would serve as a raiding cue to Cantina, how we’d wait for 5pm coz then we’d be allowed to drink outside and smoke our happy-hit hearts out without worrying about waiters or waitresses bugging us to hide our drinks inside coz a barangay whoever might drop by and see that they were serving drinks early in the afternoon, how our table would slowly fill with people we know and don’t know and how we get introduced to random guys and forget their names split of a second after.
I haven’t been out with my friends for more than a month and seeing their pictures on Facebook makes me miss them, the old times, and the old me.
Nonetheless somehow I don’t feel a bit of loss - I may probably be missing a lot on the partying scene but looking at alcohol-free reality, my life now is a whole lot ‘satisfying’ than how it was before.
If by chance you get to read this, I’d want you to know that you’ve changed me. I’ve left the partying life behind not because you told me to, but because you’ve shown me that a simple, quiet life with YOU is a whole lot better.