hey Tman, your probably pissed at me. i can obviously see why. look i appreciate your comments like you wouldent believe. i need to know somone out there actoualy cares about me. i never get that any where else. kinda sad im depending on the computer for "love." look, your advice is great, and it makes sence. im prossesing it fine... it just dosent fit into my life as of right now.
im a teen. this is my time to goof off and try new things. do you really want me smoking pot when im an adoult? i have slack as a teen. i guess i had slack as a kid too, but i couldent use it. idk if you know this but i was the peace maker in my house. i always had to step on egg shells around every member of my family so i dident set off the proverbial powder keg. i would have loved one night where i could feel like a kid, and not have to wory about my parents fighting. but that never happened.
now is my time to do dumb a$$ $h1T (if you got that haha). im not addicted to anything. i know you wont stop telling me to stop, but look, im not gona right now. maybe i will in a year, or maybe i wont. i will stop before college is over, and i will stop forever.
idk why but i just feel like this is a fitting song. Peace and HUGS!!
PS i know other people post too like Billy, Andy, and Mark, and i love you guys too, but i dont think i've pissed you off (yet)haha. plz keep commenting all of you guys! Peace
And So It Goes (2014)
9 years ago
4 comments:
Hi there, Spys
I think I'm well overdue to comment on one of your posts. I'm sorry - I've meant to comment, quite a few times, but I've struggled to find the time, not least because many of your posts seem to need a carefully considered response.
So, the topic of the moment is your relationship with various substances: alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, if I'm not mistaken. I appreciate your honesty about what you're doing, even if I would prefer you to be doing something different. I'll tell you what my experience is, and how I suggest you treat them.
1. Alcohol
This is the one I'm most familiar with. I like various types of drink, principally beer and wine. I'll happily have two or three pints of beer or glasses of wine during an evening with friends; if I'm on my own, no more than one bottle of beer in an evening, perhaps a couple of times a week at most. I don't like to go much further than that, as I don't much like to get drunk. Experience suggests that I'm a happy drunk (lots of giggling!) but I still prefer not to go there.
Alcohol can (occasionally) be a good servant; I think it is almost always a bad master. The consequences of getting it wrong are evident from blogs that we both follow: Anton's Haus, Gabe's Journal, Planet DJ. In moderation it's OK, but you have to know where your limits are and stick to them.
2. Tobacco
I don't smoke, and never have done, but my parents both smoked from before I was born until I was about twenty. I don't like the smell of cigarette smoke (so the British ban on smoking in public places was very welcome) and I find smoking a real turn-off in otherwise attractive people.
I probably don't need to repeat all the health reasons for not smoking; I would ask, though: do you really want all that gunk all over the surface of one of your most delicate and sensitive organs? And tobacco is, as I understand it, insidiously and very strongly addictive - you're hooked before you know it. It's also, I think, one of the most difficult addictions to break: I know quite a few people who've tried and failed to stop, usually several times.
3. Marijuana
I've never tried it; again, I don't want to. The closest I've got to it was a party where almost everyone else was smoking it. It was an interesting experience, though not one I want to repeat:
- for most of the next day, I felt as if my body chemistry was slightly wrong;
- while at the party, it seemed to me as if those who were smoking had gone stupid, to put it bluntly - either talking almost random nonsense, or just gazing blankly into space.
I'm fairly sure that at least one of my friends has suffered permanent changes to his mental sharpness as a result of marijuana.
As I understand it, marijuana is not as addictive as tobacco; in some cases (certain people with long-term pain) it's apparently beneficial. Nevertheless, I'd want to treat something that has such an obvious effect on the brain with a lot of caution. Bearing in mind the title of your blog, Spys, you're obviously interested in some quite subtle things, like thinking about how other people think - please be wary of messing up your ability to do that.
I think that's it from me for now; I'll try to be more frequent with comments from now on.
*hugs*
Mark
Look kid, I'm trying to just calm down a bit... I told you that I wouldn't leave you, and, I meant it!! You know how I feel about you, and why I am brutally honest with my comments,, but, don't think that you can drive off a former soldier with such a pathetic machine gun... lol Do I want to scream?? Yeah!! More like, I'd like to administer a good spanking!! Someone should!! Or, is that politically incorrect, nowadays??? Well, At least your honest, and, I've been told that I can be pretty persuasive!! So, prepare yourself for my new strategy little monkey!! luv, tman<3
When you're young you live in the moment. You take risks and that leads you to the best of times but also the worst. As you grow older you get more and more aware of the dangers, and you grow more and more protective of young people. I was amazed how people I know changed when they became parents.
When I was your age I drank and smoked weed, both to excess at times. I was lucky, I had people looking out for me, making sure I didn't trash my life. I hated it then, as they would close down my fun when I got too wild, but I am so grateful now.
I still drink a little, and smoke weed occasionally, and enjoy both. Some of my friends do the same. But over the years I've seen too many lives wrecked by those two chemicals, it's been so sad to see the damage done. Sitting here on the other side of the country or the other side of the world we see the risks you take, and our overwhelming desire is just to protect you and keep you safe.
Mark, i found my limits the hard way with drinking haha. idk if i posted that story yet. if i did'nt, ill post it soon. (remind me if i dont haha)
i know about tobacco. it sucks, but lets be honest, it calms me down and i like the buz. it is, however, one of the few things im watching on how much i want. the bad thing is i seems to want to smoke, or dip, after i get in a fight with my mom, which happens offten. i dont smoke after every fight, but i want to. from now on, ill try not to smoke after fights, and just when i want to relax and enjoy the day.
marijuana is not addictive physicaly, but can be mentaly. you are right, thats somthing i need to stop, and i've expressede this to Tman too, i just dont want to yet. i wont smoke it long. hopefully ill stop in college. i dont know yet though. only time will tell. thanks for carring about me =)
Tman, i cant wait to see your stratagy =) i like new challenges =P haha i think we've already coverd everything else in the emails.
Billy, the people in your life sound like you guys now. i dont hate you guys by anymeans, but i dont want to stop smoking haha. im so glad people want me to stay safe. thats somthing i dont get much. thanks =)
Peace!!!
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