Day 340: All Nighter

Stayed up hanging out with people from my hostel. First time pulling a social all nighter in a long time.

We went to some bars and came back to the hostel where we made a makeshift game of beer pong (everyone including me were terrible and failed to fulfill the stereotype as the only American there) and played Korean, French, and American drinking games.

I drank water the entire night because I stopped drinking alcohol back in 2018, but I still had a blast. Being tired makes my mediocre jokes even worse and causes me to act without thinking much about it (leading to regretful moments of “wait why did I do/say that”), so it didn’t feel altogether different from being tipsy.

I got several “wait, you don’t drink at all?” throughout the night, but I’ve found that if you don’t make it weird and just talk about it in the same way that you’d explain how you prefer tea to coffee, people usually don’t make a big deal out of it. Being secure in your beliefs and actions is useful because as social creatures, if someone does or says something confidently, we often shift our frame of reference to behave as if it were normal, at least in the moment.

Now it’s 7:30am and I’m ready to pass out forever. So tired. Good night.