The Bar

Have you ever been to bar alone? Like alone as in “alone”? No friends, no date, no acquaintance around. Just yourself only. I had. And it’s not that fun. Unless of course you’re this eternal flirt, that you don’t mind making passes on just about anybody. It’s really rare for me to go on a night out by myself. I consider myself a social person, I enjoy more in the company of others. I can savor the beer or vodka more if there are people whom I can talk to, share some stories to while we make fun of each other or the people around us.  There’s this one occasion when I got so thirsty for beer, and almost everyone on earth has an alibi to not go with me. Well, I told myself, whether I have company or not, I need a dose of those precious alcohol haha. So I went to this bar, and of course when I arrived there, I knew no one. Well, for me it really didn’t matter since all I want was some bottles of beer. It dawned on me afterwards that it can be lonely wiling the time away with no company but some empty bottles of beer. And I also thought, do we really need to have company when we go to bars? Can we not enjoy the night alone? Maybe, if we wanna do something stupid so we won’t risk embarrassing our friends haha. Well there are perks to drinking the night away alone. You get to leave whenever you want to, you get to pay for your own tab only, and if you wanna get hitched, you don’t need to worry about making up an alibi on how to get rid of your companion. A lot of things can happen in a bar. You can get drunk, you can flirt, you can get laid with someone whose face you won’t remember the next morning, you can lost your sanity for one night, you can do things that you won’t have any recollection the following day and you can do things that you won’t normally do when you’re sober. That leaves me wondering, does it make us attractive to go drinking in a bar alone? Or does it just magnify the fact that we’re all by ourselves?