Posted by angmar on 6/10/2013 2:10:00 AM (view original):
Awww man, you mean no more BS posts about how you plan to spend the last year of your life strung out on heroin? That was an interesting little "phase" you went through. Interesting, in this case, being synonymous with "stupider than hell".
i think many people get caught up in the grind of life. and at times, many of us suffer from an over-active mind, getting hung up on things that arent terribly important. i guess i would guess most of us can find *some* appeal, however small, to the prospect of being able to forget all that, and having 1 problem in life. sort of like in the sopranos, when christopher gets made and pauley (sp?) tells him, you are lucky, most people have all these problems... all your problems in life are reduced to one - kicking up the ladder - the family takes care of the rest. its obviously not true, he has more problems, but still. when i watched train spotting the first time and made the connection between it, and a couple old friends i have who fell off the wagon and really screwed their life up, it had a bit of an impact to me - i guess i "got it", on some level. they say in that movie something like, "if you have an honest to god junk habit, all of lifes problems really are reduced to one". obviously again, not totally true, but to care so much about one thing and not have to worry about providing for a family, how you impact others, all that.. i mean, its sad, first and foremost, there is no doubt about that. but on some level, its also appealing - the simplicity i mean, not the dope. kind of along the lines of, ignorance is bliss. if every day you can feed your habit is a good day, and every day you cant, is a horrible one... there really is a level of simplicity to life that eludes the rest of us.
so, i suppose you probably took me a bit more literally than intended. i havent the slightest idea how, as a 75 year old man (or whatever), id be able to convince a dope dealer to sell heroin to me. i think that would be pretty funny, i guess the picture in my head is larry david trying to buy some pot for his dad's glaucoma, except, way shadier. hed probably think i was a narc, most likely id get robbed & stabbed on my first attempt :) so i suppose i meant things more metaphorically than you took them, it doesnt seem terribly practical to me. besides... dont nurses (and HC professionals) really struggle to get blood and stuff from old people? if they struggle that much to find veins, how would an old man with a shaky hand do it? maybe an old pro... but i cant see how you could just start doing that at that age. i mean, im sure its possible... but the point really is that its pretty obviously impractical and doesnt really any make sense if you take it literally. i sort of assumed that was implied.
anyway, you are entitled to your own opinion. i like to think most people took it a bit differently than just wanting to be strung out on heroin (which sounds pretty horrible), but in any case, you wont have to hear it any more!!
6/10/2013 2:29 PM (edited)