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m&ms487 (profile) wrote,
on 11-3-2006 at 2:39pm
Current mood: mellow
They say drugs are a crutch. Some people use them to escape reality. I take that back. All people use them to escape reality. Their reality. They’re an escape from failure, from success, from whatever you don’t like about your life. But there are so many other crutches that aren’t even acknowledged. Food, exercise, writing, reading, or self injury. A parent living out his or her dreams through their child. It’s anything that creates an escape. Our world, our reality, is full of these crutches that we use to hobble away from the reality we created for ourselves.
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jessa_lynne

11-03-06 7:36pm

so i guess it's just fine to abuse something as an escape as long as you claim that everyone else is doing in their own special way...?

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spinder

Re:, 11-03-06 11:05pm

Perhaps she's saying that the focus should be on the problem, not on the substance or action highlighted by any one persons attempt to deal with that problem.

So often you deal with someones drug problem, and they develop some other habit that has nothing to do with drugs, but destroys there lives just the same. How is it that we judge one more harmfull than the other - when the damage is the same.

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jessa_lynne

Re: Re:, 11-03-06 11:28pm

my guess is that some ways of dealing with problems are much more healthy than others. one example given was writing. if i write in my journal about how work was tough or how no one loves me, boo hoo, is that a wee bit more productive than, i don't know, breaking laws, impairing your judgement, and harming your body and mind? but you know, maybe i learned that a little differently than kids whose only expirence with drugs is "hey lets smoke some pot after school; that would be awesome!" i guess lessons are just a bit stronger when they come in the form of broken homes and domestic violence. ah, but maybe i'm just being preachy as my own little cruch for dealing with that.

psh. drugs are dumb. they just are. but it's your lesson to learn. i hope you don't have to deal with it the hard way, but most people do. and when your sober, woohu, maybe then you can actually confront all those issues at the root of it...

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m&ms487

Re:, 11-04-06 2:39pm

It's not good to abuse something, but it happens a whole hell of a lot.

I don't abuse drugs or alcohol, and i don't use them as an intent to escape, but that's what they do. Whether you intend to use them as such or not.

For example:
You have a few drinks at an office christmas party so that you'll have a little better time. You're escaping your inhibitions. The things that hold you down.

I'm not saying that that you have to abuse something to use it as an escape.

Watching t.v. is an escape. You put yourself in someone else's life.

I just feel that drugs are the most prevalent and identifiable means of escape.



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tails

11-04-06 3:56am

i dont beilive that at all. not everyone has a crutch. not everyone uses drugs as a way to escape reality. alot of people drink because they like it. not because they are trying to escape feelings. alot of people smoke pot cause its fun. not because it makes them forget about all the problems in there lives. alot of people excersise because its healthy not because while they are running they arent focused on their pains. the world isnt that bad a place. sometimes you have to stop looking through the pages of a poem and realize that not everything is so bad. the world and its inhabitants are all really beautiful things. stuff doesnt suck so bad.

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1010101

11-04-06 3:43pm

Hmm, to say that we all use crutches implies that we are all somehow crippled. Though I will admit I enjoy the metaphor very much, logically speaking it doesn't really work, for if everyone is crippled, our true capacities are still even and we remain relatively normal. In any case, as someone else posted here, I also feel we don't use all the things you mentioned as ways to escape reality. I actually write to help myself deal with reality. I eat because, dammit, I love food (besides, I need the nutrition or I start getting really blurry minded and wind up with an annoying headache). I read so that I can improve my vocabulary and composition, and so that I can maybe be inspired by the ideas of other authors (and also partly because it leaves me feeling more intelligent). I exercise (or, rather, I used to exercise) so that I can improve my body and not find myself getting winded after going up 4 flights of stairs.

I really don't know much about drugs. I know that they have proven negative effects on one's body and often on one's psyche. They can lead to interesting experiences, and, arguably, have led to some wonderfully successful careers in art. However, I'm not sure they're much of an escape from reality. I suppose you escape reality if you lack the means to discern what precisely reality is. I suppose I always viewed drugs as more of an indulgence. Something completely unnecessary, which may even leave you worse for wear, but which leaves you feeling better (at least for some time) so you use/do it anyways.

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spinder

11-04-06 4:10pm

Every single one of you has a different schema around the word "Crutch"

None of you are going to make any sence to any of the other ones up untill you all realize that. I would bet you all hold very close opinions on this matter if you look at it right.

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