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Bitter Cactus
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Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences 2
#19197402 - 11/27/13 05:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is just a theory, it might not be true for you but it is true for me. As I grew older and began trying new drugs I became more interested in doing the drugs then living life. I think of the time I have spent acquiring, consuming, thinking of the drugs. All the time being high at home when I could be out travelling, pursuing hobbies, having new life experiences. I actually think that when I was younger I had more hobbies and as I began using more drugs a lot of those hobbies were dropped at the exact same time. Anybody notice this or am I tripping?
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197421 - 11/27/13 05:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm sure not all of us have an unhealthy obsession with them. I'd say they enhance most life experiences.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Enjoywho] 1
#19197436 - 11/27/13 05:20 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Everything in moderation, if your happy living your life the way you are then your doing it right.
If your unhappy, change something. Most of all be honest with yourself, if your abusing something in your life you will know it, it's just admitting it that's hard sometimes.
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Bitter Cactus
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: The5thElement]
#19197439 - 11/27/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm not even doing drugs every day at this point. I think though even smoking weed, chilling at home and playing video games to cure your boredom can cause this.
-------------------- Taking acid and thinking you are a better man is a lot different then actually becoming a better man.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: The5thElement]
#19197442 - 11/27/13 05:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The5thElement said: Everything in moderation, if your happy living your life the way you are then your doing it right.
If your unhappy, change something. Most of all be honest with yourself, if your abusing something in your life you will know it, it's just admitting it that's hard sometimes.
QFT Well said
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197448 - 11/27/13 05:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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*Doing drugs to the extent that it impedes with life experiences makes you miss out on life experiences
Psychedelics made me appreciate things in life I wouldn't have payed attention to otherwise (both while using and post-trip). I'd say they enhanced life experiences.
Opiates led me to drop out of life.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Magicman69]
#19197454 - 11/27/13 05:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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always thought of drugs as the spices to life. you need the stable foods of a diet to add spices to enhance flavor. can't just live of consuming spices. you know?
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: WhoManBeing]
#19197501 - 11/27/13 05:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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WhoManBeing said: always thought of drugs as the spices to life. you need the stable foods of a diet to add spices to enhance flavor. can't just live of consuming spices. you know?
And like spices, they are entirely unnecessary. But when used properly they can really increase the quality of the meal (life).
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: NotTheDevil]
#19197519 - 11/27/13 05:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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adding depth to life is a worthy life experience
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197527 - 11/27/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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sucks for you dude, if anything, I've found that drugs can enhance life experiences depending on the situation.
dont spend all of your focus on the drg, yeah, theres more than that out there.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Hobozen]
#19197531 - 11/27/13 05:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: WhoManBeing] 1
#19197614 - 11/27/13 06:09 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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doing drugs makes you miss out on sober life experiences
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197652 - 11/27/13 06:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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not doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197666 - 11/27/13 06:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Blanket statement
I know stoners that sit around and do nothing and I know stoners that do triathlons. You can't just lump all drug users together.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Synthe]
#19197676 - 11/27/13 06:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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There are "functioning" addicts..
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197703 - 11/27/13 06:32 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bitter Cactus said: I'm not even doing drugs every day at this point.
You still fantasize and romanticize about drugs 24/7. Are you active in any forum that isn't drug related? I'm guessing not.
You'll have a lot more to do once you finally start moving toward independence, i.e. getting a job, moving out, etc. You might even meet a friend or two along the way
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197712 - 11/27/13 06:34 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bitter Cactus said: This is just a theory, it might not be true for you but it is true for me. As I grew older and began trying new drugs I became more interested in doing the drugs then living life. I think of the time I have spent acquiring, consuming, thinking of the drugs. All the time being high at home when I could be out travelling, pursuing hobbies, having new life experiences. I actually think that when I was younger I had more hobbies and as I began using more drugs a lot of those hobbies were dropped at the exact same time. Anybody notice this or am I tripping?
drugs arnt for you, simple as that.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: pcplease]
#19197719 - 11/27/13 06:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Smoking weed could work either way
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Konyap]
#19197767 - 11/27/13 06:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yup. I love the raciness of a good toke; really helps me get up and going like I'm on auto-pilot. Add some strong and I couldn't sit down if I tried
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197791 - 11/27/13 06:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bitter Cactus said: This is just a theory, it might not be true for you but it is true for me. As I grew older and began trying new drugs I became more interested in doing the drugs then living life. I think of the time I have spent acquiring, consuming, thinking of the drugs. All the time being high at home when I could be out travelling, pursuing hobbies, having new life experiences. I actually think that when I was younger I had more hobbies and as I began using more drugs a lot of those hobbies were dropped at the exact same time. Anybody notice this or am I tripping?
I do my hobbies while I do my drugs, except when I'm high enough that I know my fingers/mind/whatever are to clumsy for the tools I'll use.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
#19197969 - 11/27/13 07:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Whatever you do do there's billions of other things you could be doing and aren't. If you're hiking in the Andes you're not at a World Series game. If you're at a World Series game you're not fucking a hooker in Thailand. If you're fucking a hooker in Thailand you're not in a NYC library reading Tolstoy. But you can do all that shit stoned.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: NotTheDevil] 2
#19198051 - 11/27/13 07:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah...i definitely get what the op is saying and can relate.
i don't agree with the way you've framed the question, though. how can any experience not be a life experience? i don't say this to nitpick semantics, nor to project a view onto you that you likely don't hold - but your language reminds me of the all-too-common assumption in our culture that drug induced experiences are by definition not "real" and therefore are inferior to experiences not induced by drugs.
this is, of course, ridiculous! drug experiences are as real as any other experience (i.e. not particularly real), as evidenced by their apparent reality to any person having them.
i've seen many people - including myself - get into a rut with drug use where they repeat very similar experiences again and again, almost as though their primary motivations are boredom and a lack of creativity in choosing what to do next. i've seen many people - including myself - do the same thing with work, school, video games, various social activities, and so on.
i feel very strongly that drug induced experiences are not a special category of experience that can be assumed to be of lesser value relative to all other forms of experience. drug induced experiences should be evaluated on the same scale as all others. most engineering students i knew in school were stuck in a terrible rut and missing out on many important life experiences; society rewarded that rut and few of them have left it.
any person stuck in a rut would benefit greatly from being led to do something new. those engineering students would probably have benefited from a psychedelic experience; op might benefit from a dead sober experience. ^_^
Edited by hmmn (11/27/13 07:52 PM)
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: hmmn]
#19198057 - 11/27/13 07:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I agree with OP to an extent. When I smoked weed I was living the same life I was before. Then I got pretty consumed with drugs in general and all my focus towards things went to drugs.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: luvdemboomers]
#19198307 - 11/27/13 09:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nope, drugs are just another rare hobby for me. Music is my main hobby.
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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: hmmn]
#19200262 - 11/28/13 11:03 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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hmmn said: i've seen many people - including myself - get into a rut with drug use where they repeat very similar experiences again and again, almost as though their primary motivations are boredom and a lack of creativity in choosing what to do next. i've seen many people - including myself - do the same thing with work, school, video games, various social activities, and so on.
inotherwords, some drugs can be habit forming, and some habits can get boring
humans are weird creatures. we actively seek out things to addict ourselves to, in order to feel a sense of "holding onto something". food, drugs, partying, sex, music, relationships, etc. even small OCD things represent somewhat of an addictive tendency.
we understand that we are impermanent beings living in an impermanent world, and we struggle with this notion by finding things to addict ourselves to.
we want to attach. we want to stick to things, and for things to stick to us. else we're just a void within void. smoke in the wind
Edited by Envix (11/28/13 11:10 AM)
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