Fifty to 50 #2: Drink a Beer
It’s been a slow start, but I’ve finally got to item number two on the list. I cannot say that it was worth the wait.
I have never been a drinker. When I was in my teens, I was a track and field athlete with (unrealistic) dreams of becoming an Olympic champion and, therefore, never started drinking alcohol as I believed it would ruin my chances of winning gold! By the time I’d stopped competing, I’d seen people with whom I had grown up get into all sorts of alcohol-fuelled trouble and that just didn’t appeal to me. So I never started drinking.
Until now.
Here’s the story of my first – and last – beer:
Never again!
“Wisdom is supreme, so make sure that you acquire wisdom. Even if it costs you everything, acquire understanding.” Proverbs 4:7.
I don’t think that I’ve done that, really, have i?
Not Past It Yet 