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JustABoxOfRain

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How was your year? 3
#27116195 - 12/30/20 12:30 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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So this year was the craziest of my entire life. Obviously it was like this with many people what with Covid and the political turmoil these are strange times indeed.
I have finished college and got my AA. I moved out on my own for the first time into a beautiful little apartment. My best friend unfortunately took his own life this summer and it was a tremendous blow to process. I was able to finally quit heroin after overdosing twice shooting up and being hit with narcan 10 times.
I went through an intense relationship which did not last and left me very hurt at first. I went through a dark period of depression and self harm. I went through two jobs before landing at my current one. I’m a cook at a nice restaurant in my city.
I have been able to heal myself and reconnect to by higher being. I am healthy and treating my self with respect for the first time in year. I have rediscovered my old interests like music, philosophy/psychology and the occult/magick. I am reading, exercising, meditating, doing yoga and spending time in nature.
For years I was suicidal and depressed and a junkie. I’m so glad I was able to push through the dark night of the soul. I wanted to ask all the family here how was you’re year?? It’s definitely been the hardest most intense year for me but as it comes to a close I can actually be grateful for how things went as it lead to my spiritual rebirth!
I love you all! Let me know how your year went! I will also be back in the forum now! I’ll see you all around!!
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
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Single_Sum



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The best part of this year for me was Covid.
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tyrannicalrex
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That's in incredible and great life story! Congrats and keep on keepin' on! Life is good!
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spirit_shadow
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I dont want to talk about it
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split_by_nine
i am the liquor

Registered: 07/11/18
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my year was boring. missed out on a lot of badass concerts because of the covids, but other than that not much else had been affected.
i finally took advantage of my dental insurance and i got my teeth fixed today. very happy about that.
much love to you, JustABoxOfRain, and to everyone else! keep it mushy
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vandago



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Best year of my life.
Got off benzos.
Cleared most of my debt.
Got a new dog.
Got off probation.
Got my license.
Got a car. ( 4 years without )
Had amazing sex.
Smoked some of the best weed ever
Found new mush spots.
Got back together with old friends and family who couldn't deal with a benzo addict.
Developed a retirement plan that suits me.
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split_by_nine
i am the liquor

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Re: How was your year? [Re: vandago]
#27117091 - 12/30/20 08:54 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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what breed of dog?
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Seriously_trippin
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I'm glad you're doing better now this year was bad for us all and I'm sorry yours was worse then most. My addictions I was getting better on got worse when pain and anxiety went up but that's been going on for a while now and may need another surgery. My dad had a life threatening condition eith bad gallstones and it's inoperable so we need to do everything under the sun to make sure he doesn't have to have surgery. Lived with barely any money after the roof over the head so not a lot of cool treats or anything. My psychological state is much worse then it has been. There's 3 friends I don't see anymore because A) I caretake for my dad who also has severe lung problems so all this year has been terrifying thinking he'd get it. Still am tbh he can't the vaccine soon enough B) those 3 friends lost 5 family members, close ones to covid and it's destroyed their wills to live this year and luckily they have a lot of friends to get them through but just in funeral costs this year it's been hard on a lot of them.
In short I'm so lucky I have food,housing and my family/friends and didn't lose my parents to this like my friends have. I'm lucky but it's still been one of the hardest years of my life too. All the dope in the world can't dull the pain of this year and I've tried but first 7 months I was falling apart constantly
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Edited by Seriously_trippin (12/30/20 09:07 PM)
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Lynnch
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Seriously_trippin said: I'm lucky but it's still been one of the hardest years of my life too.
Seriously tho. I'm extremely lucky but I can't say that I enjoyed this year but I can't say that it was bad because lots of folks had it far worse. I've got like survivors guilt. At the start of 2020 I was almost back to being as strong as I ever was. I was starting to expand my work to new venues to make more money. A year later and, I'm now fatter and weaker than ive been in a decade (or feel that way at least). Haven't worked since march, wondering if my industry will ever come back. On the bright side, I finished my AA too Paid off a big credit card debt. Moved to a new city. Got accepted into university. None of which would have happened if this shit year hadn't happened, so
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Ezuma
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The first half was great, the first two months of lockdown was great (was off work but got government handouts for it thankfully) The second half was iffier not due to covid but due to unrelated health problems, but it's looking up now
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JustABoxOfRain

Registered: 07/20/17
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tyrannicalrex said: That's in incredible and great life story! Congrats and keep on keepin' on! Life is good!
I appreciate that
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
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JustABoxOfRain

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I miss concerts and festivals sooo much as well. Much love to you fam!
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
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JustABoxOfRain

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Re: How was your year? [Re: vandago]
#27121007 - 01/01/21 07:28 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good stuff!! Feels good to be getting things together! Hoping to get my license as well here soon!
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
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JustABoxOfRain

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Re: How was your year? [Re: Lynnch]
#27121010 - 01/01/21 07:29 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cheers to getting our AA’s, I was homeschooled and college was my first school experience so was a big deal for me. I’m also working out again!
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
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JustABoxOfRain

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Quote:
Seriously_trippin said: I'm glad you're doing better now this year was bad for us all and I'm sorry yours was worse then most. My addictions I was getting better on got worse when pain and anxiety went up but that's been going on for a while now and may need another surgery. My dad had a life threatening condition eith bad gallstones and it's inoperable so we need to do everything under the sun to make sure he doesn't have to have surgery. Lived with barely any money after the roof over the head so not a lot of cool treats or anything. My psychological state is much worse then it has been. There's 3 friends I don't see anymore because A) I caretake for my dad who also has severe lung problems so all this year has been terrifying thinking he'd get it. Still am tbh he can't the vaccine soon enough B) those 3 friends lost 5 family members, close ones to covid and it's destroyed their wills to live this year and luckily they have a lot of friends to get them through but just in funeral costs this year it's been hard on a lot of them.
In short I'm so lucky I have food,housing and my family/friends and didn't lose my parents to this like my friends have. I'm lucky but it's still been one of the hardest years of my life too. All the dope in the world can't dull the pain of this year and I've tried but first 7 months I was falling apart constantly
Quote:
Seriously_trippin said: I'm glad you're doing better now this year was bad for us all and I'm sorry yours was worse then most. My addictions I was getting better on got worse when pain and anxiety went up but that's been going on for a while now and may need another surgery. My dad had a life threatening condition eith bad gallstones and it's inoperable so we need to do everything under the sun to make sure he doesn't have to have surgery. Lived with barely any money after the roof over the head so not a lot of cool treats or anything. My psychological state is much worse then it has been. There's 3 friends I don't see anymore because A) I caretake for my dad who also has severe lung problems so all this year has been terrifying thinking he'd get it. Still am tbh he can't the vaccine soon enough B) those 3 friends lost 5 family members, close ones to covid and it's destroyed their wills to live this year and luckily they have a lot of friends to get them through but just in funeral costs this year it's been hard on a lot of them.
In short I'm so lucky I have food,housing and my family/friends and didn't lose my parents to this like my friends have. I'm lucky but it's still been one of the hardest years of my life too. All the dope in the world can't dull the pain of this year and I've tried but first 7 months I was falling apart constantly
Yeah at the start of the lockdown the combination of free time, money and me still being an addict as the perfect storm. Now I’m also very thankful to be healthy and here for my family! As well as having my own place, got stuff I want to do again!
-------------------- Brotherhood of Eternal Love I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit
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Single_Sum said: The best part of this year for me was Covid.
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Zombi3
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2020... Was complete chaos and sucked ass for me.
I hit a breaking point with the pain in my legs and feet and ended up with the most severe heroin addiction I’ve been in for the last 4 years. It was taken to a whole new level of self destruction. In part due to the massive rise in Fentanyl laced heroin. Too many of my friends died this year.
- A close friend died in January from a Fentanyl OD under a freeway overpass in a puddle of his own vomit. He was homeless and I let him stay at my apartment as much as I could. But he preferred to be on the street. So it goes...
- My best friend died in February, Heroin OD. And sadly it goes...
- I overdosed on heroin/morphine in March and woke up in the hospital. This is how it goes..
- My buddy OD’d shooting pills in at a house party in mid March, he was in the garage so nobody noticed until morning. So it goes sometimes...
- My friends little sister OD’d on Fentanyl in April. She was very gifted at music. She played guitar, piano, flute, French horn, and most memorably for me, the harmonica.. and so it goes..
- My girlfriend OD’d in May. Fentanyl, Carfentanyl, FuranylFentanyl, traces of Heroin and Clonazepam also. She looked so peaceful. Like she was asleep, in a bed we had set up in a private office in an abandoned GM factory. It’s a junkie haven. We had shot up together, I knew it wasn’t Heroin as soon as the rush hit. It was too cold and fast. All I remember is nodding out first and hearing her call my name asking if I needed the Narcan, then I woke up an hour or so later and she was peacefully wrapped up in the blankets. I leaned over to wake her up and she was cold. I was paralyzed, my mind was going a million miles a minute in no direction. I gave her a shot of nasal spray Narcan while I fumbled about in a chaos of emotion looking for the injectable Narcan. I knew she was gone already but I gave her 1.5 shots of Narcan injected into her arm anyway praying I was wrong. Completely deafening silence proceeded. It was nightmare fuel that experience. I called the paramedics and stayed with her until they came and pronounced her dead. The only form of humility and brief moment of humanity I was able to get out of that was when I dropped off her jewelry at her moms house. I couldn’t bear to see them in person so I put it in the mailbox. So it goes...
- In June one of my friends was killed in a hit and run. Tho the story in the scene is that he owed money to a gang and they ran him down on purpose. He had a kid and a wife. So it goes I suppose...
- My deceased girlfriends sister committed suicide in July; she jumped 65ft from a bridge onto a freeway. This sparked a bunch of suicides in my city; 11 people between July and early September jumped from the same spot and killed themselves. The 12th person survived miraculously, though was paralyzed from the waste down. The city held a candlelight vigil, a priest read a terrifyingly sad bible passage, gave me hella chills; unless that was the heroin.. and so it goes.. there’s still to this day a visible mark on the pavement from all the blood of various jumpers. They cleaned it with something but it just left a creepy dark spot on the pavement. A wet looking irregular spot about the size of a person. You get a cold feeling in your spine just looking over the edge at the mark on the freeway down below. The city then put up suicide prevention barriers all over the bridge in less than 2 months. It was a huge project.
- My job laid off 126 people in September. All my friends. I only escaped the layoff because I was on medical leave. I’ll be fired upon my return. So it shall go...
- I overdosed on Fentanyl laced heroin in August. Took 3 shots of Naloxone to wake me up. If I wasn’t at a junkie house with a bunch of people carrying Narcan I would have died. If only 1 person was there with only 1 Narcan shot I would have died. So it goes...
- A friend I’d known for 7 years OD’d on fentanyl laced heroin in August. So it goes...
- I overdosed on heroin in August and only narrowly avoided dying. My dealer called the ambulance since he didn’t have Narcan. Him and his girl dragged me across the street and gave the ambulance that address in true junkie fashion. I woke up with 4 cops and 3 paramedics standing over me. In order to not heat out my dealers house I ended up telling them I shot up in the alley nearby and stumbled that far before it was lights out. Told them I had no idea who called them. This is how it goes...
- In September I was jumped and robbed for $400 cash and a ball of Heroin. They broke my nose, 2 of my fingers, and I didn’t make rent that month. So it goes...
- About a week later I was picking up Heroin with my supposed friend. He claimed to not have cash and the nice person I am I told him I’d buy him a point bag to get rid of his dope sickness so he would be well enough to busk or whatever he wanted to do to get his own dough. When I returned from picking up he suckered me with a left hook from hell knocking me in a daze to the ground then gave me a swift kick to the gut. Completely winded at this point he stole the dope and his girl pulled up 1 second later in a car and they took off. Altho I heard karma got them good and they were caught with open alcohol containers at a ride stop a few hours later.
- At the end of September I was jumped, beaten, and robbed for a 1/4 pound of Blue Dream cannabis, 165 tabs of LSD and a 1/4oz of MDMA. Fuck I’m still fucking mad about that one..
- In October my best friend in the entire world who I’ve known since 1997 and who’s been my room mate since 2012 finally got sick of my junkie lifestyle and without notice moved 4 hours away. Hasn’t bothered to answer any of my correspondence since then. Feels bad man. So it goes I suppose...
- Also in October I overdosed one last time for the year on Heroin in my car while waiting for my dealer. I did my last shot which was more like 2 full shots. If my doors weren’t unlocked and my dealer didn’t have the sense to see what had happened or if he hadn’t shown up at the right time then I prolly would have died. He hit me with nasal Narcan which I always keep a stash of in my glove box. Called the ambulance and bolted. I woke up hearing sirens, I could taste the Narcan drip in my throat so I pieced together what happened relatively quick, moved my car 4 blocks before the ambulance arrived and I had explaining to do; then I called my dealer back and met him 5 minutes later only another 3 blocks from where I was. So it goes...
- On Halloween 2 local girls who frequented the squat my dealer was living at OD’d on Carfentanyl and Diazepam. So it commonly goes..
- In November I broke 2 wisdom teeth. They rotted out from all the heroin and lack of a proper diet and oral hygiene. Had all 4 pulled a week later. So it goes..
- Also in November I had met a new girl who I liked but she drowned along with her dog when she was all benzod out and walked out onto the ice of a local lake and fell through. I wasn’t there, she was missing for 2 weeks before she was found. The ice froze over where she fell through so her and the dog were traveling the lakes current under the ice for 2 weeks before a warm spell came through and melted the ice enough for the body to be found. Eerily this was the same lake that Paul Bernardo dumped his first victims bodies encased in cement. She was a beautiful girl with a heart of gold. The story haunts my dreams also, it’s nothing short of nightmare fuel.
- December is when things started to look up. I had removed myself from the heroin scene because I couldn’t possibly keep up emotionally with all the fucked up shit that was happening. I had been off on medical leave since April trying to find a surgeon to operate on my foot. But COVID had shut down elective surgeries for the better part of the year, and I was considered elective not an emergency. Finally after lockdown restrictions loosened and surgeons had open room I was approved for surgery on December 18th. I had moved out of the 2 bedroom I was sharing with my best friend (tho I spent most nights at a squat or in my car or at a girls place) and moved into another apartment. I’ve had the new apartment since November 1st and haven’t spent one single night there, tho I’ve faithfully paid my rent each month, it’s basically a really expensive storage unit at this point. But I was tapering off the dope in preparation for my surgery. Which didn’t work I was shooting right up until 2-3 days before surgery. When I got to pre-op with dozens upon dozens of track marks in my arms I told them it was from 14 days prior because I knew they wouldn’t put me in surgery if they knew there was still junk metabolites in my system. I then went cold turkey and got off the dope because I have a hard cast on my foot and can’t get into any footwear therefore can’t go outside in the cold or do my own groceries so I moved in with my dad temporarily so he can cater to me and help me heal, the doctor kept repeating it’s a risky surgery with a high failure rate. So life goes...
- On Christmas morning one of my closest friends OD’d on mail order 3-methylfentanyl in a Tim Hortons bathroom stall.
- On Boxing Day an acquaintance hung himself from the hay loft of his parents barn. So it goes..
This year in review? I just want to forget 2020 ever happened. I’m in a terrible amount of emotional distress. I’m trying to find something solid to ground me to reality because my tether snapped many months ago. I feel brain damaged from all the heroin, my emotions are sporadic and don’t always make sense, I react to situation with emotions that are completely out of place. Like I said I couldnt possibly keep up emotionally with what was happening around me. Tho things are calmer and making more sense now that I’m detoxed off the junk, I’m eating proper meals 3x a day, I’m taking Xanax as prescribed for my panic attacks, anxiety, and insomnia, and I’m in a more positive environment.
Still. I wish I could have wiped the memories from 2020 completely off the slate last night at midnight.
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Edited by Zombi3 (01/01/21 09:39 PM)
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morrowasted
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Re: How was your year? [Re: Zombi3]
#27121172 - 01/01/21 09:29 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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honestly it was not bad other than the whole work being a borderline warzone thing
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Re: How was your year? [Re: budmanman]
#27121246 - 01/01/21 10:30 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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budmanman said:

looks like high school musical except the hospital version

would not watch
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