Interesting rant. Sounds like you've got a lot of stuff to figure out. I know for me, poker is simply a means to an end. That end being able to do whatever I feel like including paying off college loans faster than I could if I didn't play. Working out is great in and of itself because it helps you have a stable part of the day where you know you need to do something and lets you forget a lot of other worries in life. Pairs up pretty perfectly with the variance heavy poker playing life style.

If your friends only want to get drunk then who fucking cares. If you don't feel like going out then don't. It's that easy. I'm in my senior year of college when society says "I should be getting wasted every day and banging like 30 chicks a week" but instead I've been to one party this term which although it was fun probably got me sick. Seriously, fuck peer pressure and do you.