Today may suck but tomorrow will feel better because you didn't pick up and drink. I understand feeling lonely. I have thought the very same thing about going to the bar. The reality is that they are still the same people, talking about the same things, drinking the same amount...nothing changes. But you are changing. Do you really want to not be lonely and hang out with a bunch of barflies? That is what the people in the bar I hung out at were...barflies...they were always there. Not much of a life if you ask me. I'm interested in developing real relationships with real people.