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The very mention of it makes you roll your tongue. Thirst suddenly hits you.

Tequila was the first alcoholic drink that I ever had. The thrill of breaking the good-girl's-code who doesn't drink was first broken when I had a swig from a 60ml shot glass. It burnt my insides.

We were in college then, and in our innocence, even a single shot of tequila was equivalent to more than just a drink... it was an expression of freedom; of breaking the rules... (something we'd seen our dads do) and that was... to have a drink. That's how you know you're now a grown up... you can drink.

Ever since then, you've had the most amazing of memories associated with that magical drink. Of course, some other friends have joined mid-way; there’s the sophisticated looking wine, there's the rum & coke, there’s the beer, there's the ill-fated too-many-vodkas-in-one-night, there's the whisky which you hated the taste of initially...

Of our most special memories (since we turned 21, that is), quite a few are those when you raised a shiny little glass over the top of your head with some salt on the back of your palm and a lime slice between the fingers.

There was that late friday evening when you wished to greet the beginning of a weekend with a couple of tequila shots at the local adda with your closest friends.

There was that hot thursady afty when you wanted to relax with a chilled pint of beer.

There was that lady’s special wednesday night when you could spill it all out with vodka and the girl gang.

There was that fine silent night when you wished to drown someone else’s existence with a glass of rum and coke.

And then there was that night when you celebrated with ordering for a Antiquity for each of your friends.

We all might have the idea of good or bad, right or wrong, happiness or sadness, celebration or grief, relaxation or anxiety, freedom or constraints. Irrespective of that,what matters to me is the feel, it’s the light-head-feeling that keeps pulling me back to it. I drink to get drunk..

PS: Mummy ko nahi hai pata :D