Picnic Day

Davis holds an annual holiday called Picnic day in which festivities occur within UC Davis and is amplified throughout the town.  Every Picnic Day starts bright and early at 9 am with a parade and subsequent other events throughout the day until mid-day, where the parties start until people pass out one way or another.  It's an excuse for binge-drinking, many taking shots in the morning to satisfy the need to follow college/ Picnic Day traditions.  I am not much of a drinker, but so instead of mimosas...I had orange juice.  Most people that usually follow picnic day, due so by spiking every kind of drink imaginable, but for some reason, I just don't think there is a real point in disturbing a drink with something that deletes the taste I expect.

Maybe it's just me, but there has been a significant point where the need to get drunk is significantly decreased in comparison for the need to taste completely.  This is not saying I did not drink on this day, I did, but it's usually because of either peer pressure or another significant event, a depressing one.  Truthfully, that is one of my biggest issues I guess I have with drinking.  It's probably more often that drinking has gained a negative connotation has has had negative reinforcement throughout my time in college through significant events and from friends.  Drinking has never been a time in which happiness is there, but always a background to a slight sadness.  Drinking to socialize is okay, but drinking to get drunk is for the most part never a fun part of it.  Maybe I'm not having the "correct fun" required when drinking, but for me, I think that if you can't have fun without drinking doing what you are doing, then it is not truly fun.  This logic can be used to define what is of significance to one, and has for me in many situations.  I'm not saying my opinion on this subject is vast.  I am inexperienced with life, and its happenstances, and I do not know what to make of it.  I'm not a person though who likes to act out from substance, but likes to act out due to personal insanity, which is completely fine.  

Meh, these issues of drinking is complicated because I too had a slight drinking problem previously.  I drank mainly to repress depression and aid in insomnia.  For the most part, it didn't work, and it was horribly depressing.  In any case, alcohol can help catalyze ease in introduction or dancing, but should not be used as a crutch for either.

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