not become an alcoholic

is it normal to have one drink by yourself? I’m still doing cocktails, vodka and coke or whiskey and coke, mostly whatever’s in the apartment and whatever my roomate won’t notice I’m taking since I didn’t pay for the alcohol. So far it’s a lonely drink once a week, but it has only been two weeks of this. I just liked the idea of relaxing and enjoying some alone time with a drink. Maybe my family has made me too paranoid about becoming an alcoholic; they basically predicted that I was the most prone to it. I’ll tell you one thing, it sure makes the words flow a lot easier when writing. Hmm, I wonder if this is why so many writers were alcoholics.

I’m 22 years old with a new found love for alcohol and mixed drinks. I love how mixing drinks and appreciating the combinations can mimic cooking but when there’s no one to enjoy the fruits with me, drinking alone can strike in me the fear of becoming the alcoholic my father once was. I’ve at least graduated college but now the stresses of work make going to the bottle for relief all the more tempting. It’s almost like I’m kidding myself when I go out with my friends and say it’s them that’s relieving my stress. To top it off, my new roomate is a bit of a drunkard herself, and the alcohol available has increased.