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nowaypablo  ·  2675 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 30, 2016

Went home for Thanksgiving, got to see some of my best, old friends for the first time in 6 months.

Went to some parties and had a great time, but I while I had quit weed a long time ago and resorted to drinking, some of my best friends had graduated to partying with Xanax, which resulted in me having to slap my best friend until he half-woke-up, the kind of barely-alive living that one is while on bars, so I could drag him to his Uber.

Still a lot of fun, but I came back to college with a lot of questions about where some my friends were headed. Not to mention the random stories I heard all weekend about "so-and-so is at rehab now, did you hear?" "oh and Sam got arrested on probation so now he's got like 6 months in jail lol" :[





blackbootz  ·  2674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit buddy. I know that sinking feeling. I'll tell you that the 18-25 year old cohort takes a massive dip into drugs and alcohol. Most of the peeps make it through. Some don't. In some places, a lot of people don't. And it's surprising how indifferent to wealth or skin color or zip code drugs and addiction can be.

This is one of things where I sympathize with what you're saying deeply but don't have anything more to say than that. I can appeal to Stoicism and say that it's all out of your hands anyway, but that's typically not a comforting thing to hear. But it's good that that sort of shit makes you feel uneasy. I think it means you're in tune with your compass. A lot of people don't have that.