Loneliness And The Sober Generation
While enjoying a round of golf recently, one of my frequent playing partners and I were walking down the fairway (Thats right; if physically able, real golfers walk.). All of a sudden he looked at me as if about to confess something alarming. He is a little younger than I am which, at times, makes our conversations very interesting…like this one! It seems he had discovered that his youngest son had “done a little drinking” in college. Not reckless drinking. No blackouts. Just the ordinary experimentation that has historically accompanied adolescence. He waited for my reaction. I think I surprised him by saying, “Honestly, that may not be the worst sign.” Now, before you guys go crazy…bear with me. I know that sounds counterintuitive in an era when headlines celebrate the collapse of teen drinking. A widely circulated survey from the Institute for Family Studies , drawing on the University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future survey, showed th...