Dear Gentlemen,
I drink a lot in
bars, and over the course of my life I've lost all my friends who are not
bartenders. How do I crawl back into society?
Sincerely,
Sauced in Sausalito
Dear Sauced,
Bars are wonderful places. Dark and inviting, they offer
both drinks and camaraderie. But as a gentleman gets older, he inevitably loses
many of his drinking companions to sobriety, death, general restraint or the
demands of family.
And so a gentleman needs to adapt. Start with your
interests, be they professional, political, literary, sartorial, athletic, culinary
or cinematic. Take stock of the things you care about, and investigate ways in
which you can incorporate other people into those interests.
Another approach is to look up some of the people from
the bars you genuinely liked and reconnect with them, in a setting of their
choosing. The important thing, in both of these strategies, is to get out of
your comfort zone, lest you become entombed in it.
Refreshingly,
The Gentlemen
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