What an Interesting thread. It’s honestly an part of the drug culture I haven’t thought about before. To 99% of us here, drug and alcohol abuse/use is everyday life for them or their friends and I doubt many people have thought as extremely as the thread poster. Although Im sure many have contemplated their future after caining drugs…
I think It’s good you’re cautious now. Many people loose the strings of life because they dive head first into drugs and do too much of a good thing. Drugs are ace, so is drinking, an especially all form of partying. There is a reason why some people loose their education to choose a life of the good stuff. There can be a balance though. Alot of people still attend University, do courses and make good livings while still taking more drugs than your nan’s got in the cupboard.
It all depends on what you want from life. The general misconception is that drugs are bad. Im not sure how It Is in America, but in the UK and most of Europe there’s the Free Party scene… Illegal raves/parties in squatted buildings or fields. With events often in hired clubs and what not too. Anyway, just trying to put across the point that there is different drug scenes before I make my next point.
In our “scene” I believe drug use has improved my life. Without drugs there’d likely not be any “scene”. I started when I was 13/14 smoking weed, and then talking Ecstasy and Amphetamines. I still wasn’t really into the free party scene, just commercial electronic music raves. In my mid teens I began going to Free Parties and thats where my life changed. Before I was a little cunt, with no direction and had already begun wasting my life away to drugs, parties and alcohol. As I began going to these parties though, I met a hugely different variety of people that Id met from hanging around on the streets. First impressions were that these people were good people, with open minds and good principles. It’s true, but course you still get plenty of wankers.
Without being open minded about drugs and embracing it all I wouldn’t be like I am today. I think on the whole Im a much better person. I think being in an altered mind so often can help you see a different perspective to things that you wouldn’t normally. This irrationality, as it might be described, becomes a common way of thinking while taking drugs. It’s all quite subconscious, but this is the way I think of it. It’s not as though I have many Epiphanys while on drugs or anything, my mind just generally changes and expands itself.
There is the flip side, like said before, too much of a good thing. It can be easily done. It’s important to stay strong minded enough to keep your life goals and what you want in a firm grip. If you ever doubt where your going its important you take control and dont believe you’re loosing it. There’s no set amount of how much is too much. It’s all relative.
This post makes me believe even more in that “does Dom ramble” thread the other day :laugh_at:
