I still like to sit at bars now and then. i like the big circle where you can see more people than you can at a table and there is more cross talk so i don't feel so alone. I can smell the beer, I can smell the liquor. I see the other people's faces get flushed and hear them start to slur their words and get stupid. I am in my own little world and they can be in theirs. I thought it would be so hard not to drink if they were drinking but now it is something I take pride in. i would see the other, rare guy who would sit there with his coffee or his pepsi and i would envy him. I wanted to be one of those guys. Now I am one of those guys. I have a buddy who quit drinking because he saw that I was standing up to it and he wanted to stand up to it too. You not drinking could even give someone else, maybe even a dear friend, it could give him the courage to follow in your footsteps. that's when it really gets cool.