Can’t understand how people can burn the candle at both ends?

[JMAngel1]

So I went out last night with four friends. We’re all around 50. We had lots of drinks (I had the least and I had 1/2 bottle of wine, 2 G&Ts and 2 shots) and left the pub at 12.40am.
I got home at 1.20am, so was 2am before I got to sleep. I woke up at 9.30am feeling like I’d been run over by a bus!
Then loads of messages this morning - one friend had been up at 6am for a swim, the other was in city centre for a 9.30am breakfast meet up and the other two were on a 9am train to go to a convention in another city.
Meanwhile, I was barely functioning and struggling to get housework jobs done before I had to ferry kids around to various activities.
Feeling wholly inadequate - how are they doing it????

It's not unusual. You or them.
You did mix your drinks though didn't you!
The buzz of her night and good friends abc chat carries you through aswell.
I can be in bed by 9pm easily.
I also have a very high tolerance for alcohol, from when I was very young, say at uni. I can drink go to bed, get up early, I'm fine. I can not drink for ages, do dry January, and a dry Feb, in March I'm still the same.

I drink tonnes of wine. Or g&t's. Or cocktails. I don't normally mix. I also drink tonnes of water at the same time.

Why did you feel pressurised. That's not good. Why did you allow that you happen? In my group of friends we never do. There's rarely someone not drinking because they're driving or someone's doing lent or dry January or giving up for a month and no one ever cares or pressurises anyone.