Shit. I'm pushing 50. Frankly, I never could imagine my life past the age of 30-35. If my life had been mapped out for me I would have still taken it off-road and cut my own path. I was and am a rebel without a cause. I realize in retrospect that most of my attitudes, opinions, thought processes, and defense mechanisms have all been a tragic result of doubt and fear. Doubt IS fear. When I was still young, my mind and body still whole and working like they naturally would, I came to that crossroads where a young person makes some choices and sort of picks a direction, more or less. I sought guidance and was told only that I could do anything I wanted to and be anybody I wanted to. You can't really tell anymore but I was a relatively bright young man insofar as any comparison with my peers might indicate. I graduated high school 3 months after I turned 16 and would have been at the top of my class, or a close second since my good friend Judith was hella smarter than me and now practices medicine not far from where I live now, but I had taken to getting stoned during the day and tossing alcohol onto the mix at night or days, or nights, or days, whatever. It mostly matter because I had no idea what else I might be doing given that I was unable or unwilling to imagine a different vector for myself. It's been like that over the years and it is still like that for me today. And I'll tell you all straight up it doesn't feel any better today that it did 31 years ago. In fact, I wonder about how it would be and how I would feel right now if I'd never drunk alcohol, or burned anything into my lungs, or whatever just the same as I wondered back then what it would be like to drink socially, get drunk with friends, and sample some of the socially acceptable or socially unacceptable so called pleasures of life. A lot of that sampling was a fucking pain in the ass, if not just plain hard work, to get to and get through. If I'd known there was going to be that much drama and that much work to maintain the lifestyle I fell into I think I'd have rather done it with a clear mind and maybe even learned from it. Anyway, i'm rambling and you quit reading after the first sentence. But I do want to state a revelation that you'll all ignore. And believe me...I have done my research and I do feel qualified to make the following statement:
Your mind is your only tool by which you will experience each and every moment of each and every day of your entire life. Your mind will determine your success by its own measure. Your mind will determine your happiness by its own measure. Your mind...determines the reality in which you live. I know. It sounds so fucking cliche. oh wow, i think therefore i am...blah blah blah...Your mind is perfect. Rarely does chemical alteration in a social setting produce a more than perfect mind.
Shit, fuck it. I respect an individuals right to choose for themselves. Alcohol affects people differently until you get 35 years down the road where the end results are pretty much the same. You'll look and feel just the same as the Skid Row drunk who decided he needed to get there before you. It's a fact. Alcohol was an easy choice for me. Apparently I wasn't up to a challenge of being sober. Your mind is prepared to show you so much joy that you will be amazed. The loaded mind wants only to emulate the joy that you would have otherwise fully enjoyed. without ever having been loaded.
Okay. I'm not making my subtle points so well, so....Respect to Surrender and dehugger and was that Kamikaze bouncing up and down in the back? Show them some support. If your version of support includes justifications and rationalizations about your own endeavors into the ethanol then you might want to give that a closer look and start talking to the folks around you. The ones that ain't already drunk. Be genuine. This isn't about alcohol. This is about personal freedom. You're all FOR personal freedom, right? or am i in the wrong Goddamned place again? Sonofabitch. Every one of us has to decide. And if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
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