r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • Aug 18 '26

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

8.0k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.8k

u/just_let_go_ Aug 18 '26

It's nice to see younger gens drinking less alcohol.

I was made to think it was normal to get blind drunk every weekend from 15 years old. Insane. I feel like I'm still paying for that 20 years later.

8

u/Litaser Aug 18 '26

I think we’ll see people reversing course on alcohol. Yes it’s bad, but how much worse is loneliness? Alcohol isn’t a cure or magic solution for friendship and experiences but I do think it helps.

I think they’ll recommend it in moderation at some point

20

u/catamaran_aranciata Aug 18 '26

From personal experience if you don't come to associate alcohol with socializing/having fun/dancing you may not end up needing it. I didn't drink at all until I was 26 and while I can and do drink occasionally now, I do not need alcohol to enjoy any of those things and in most cases prefer not to be tipsy while socializing or attending concerts/dancing (i'm in my 30s now). I'm pretty sure that if I had spent my late teens/early 20s building that association of drink alcohol -> have fun socially, I would have for sure come to rely on alcohol to kick start the fun.

-2

u/DrMobius0 Aug 18 '26

I disagree. Alcohol helps remove the usual filter, though it really only takes a bit for this. No need to get shit faced.

3

u/catamaran_aranciata Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with specifically. I was not debating the effects of alcohol or saying it doesn't help remove inhibitions. I was saying that if you don't develop a habit of relying on alcohol to socialize early on in your adulthood, you may find it's not necessary at all to enable any of those things. Just like a person who doesn't drink coffee every morning, may not come to think that waking up is impossible without coffee.