Congratulations if you can not drink, and your work day or week doesn't leave you a little on edge, or if it does that you have the emotional regulation to reduce it. I'm impressed by the 'I don't understand the joy in it' viewpoint. Not impressed, jealous, is a more accurate way to describe it. No, meditation doesn't do it for me. And quite frankly I'm more than happy to drink alone as I am to go to a bar and talk to people.