Hey madruski. I did the work, drink, repeat for 30 years before I smartened up. Don't do that. You have a chance to make a change at a young age. I'm an introvert so I'm not going to tell you that it'll make you the life of a party and you still won't desire alone time. But alone time isn't a bad thing.
Sober me is doing things I never would have done while drinking. Right now I'm signing up to travel half way around the world by myself to meet up with total strangers to do a 16 day trek to Mt. Everest base camp. It's something as a kid I always thought would be cool to do but once I got into the drinking stuff like that fell way off my reader screen.
Make the change to stop drinking. There are things that will open up in your life that won't happen if you continue to drink. Being sober isn't going to make life perfect. In fact some of the bad stuff will still happen but you'll deal with it better and you'll have opportunities you won't get while drinking.