Chillin' With Your BONG

 One would think that after a while, age would cause you to stop smoking pot...  but, like all mediocre cultures, the more you get high, the less and less that you want to achieve...  and, you end up like all those in the Middle and Far East...  without a care in the world except where are you going to find your next little cube of hashesh...

Of course, it is referred to by many names but here in America it is called grass or pot or maryjane...

And, like alcohol it is only for those who have no discipline or self-control and want to zone out from reality and act like it's not there for a while...  or, experience the buzz of a high...  that does not last that long with long term use...  

Most alcoholics cannot admit they are alcoholics...  and yet, they need alcohol to socialize and be friendly and charming and impress all their guests who are also drinking alcohol in an effort to sustain their buzz...

Why has life become so difficult to live that we need alcohol to make sense of it all and accept our self-imposed realities???

Alcohol for many of us started in high school because we were told not to drink alcohol.  For some of us it began in college as a way to impress the females and belong to a group of males in a club who drink alcohol as if it were some kind of sport.  For others, it was at the end of day at work, to unwind from the stress of it all...  leaving the wife and children at home to wonder when you were going to return.

Gradually, drugs replaced or supplemented alcohol and soon our clever souls were consuming both and we had all sorts of friends around us doing the same...  it was one big party...  we were successful...  financially well off...  and had this great job that provided us with an enormous amount of stress that needed to be dissipated once in a while.

Drugs and alcohol WORKED...  and we became hooked on the concept but not addicted...  we were too careful for that...  but, our minds kept us involved as it became the THING TO DO...