Did YOU want to be a junkie when you grew up?

At our age, Loving sensations of the divine leaves me feeling beat up by the end of it and the next couple days. Wasn’t a big deal when I was young. I could bounce right back. When I was 40 I learned how to extract Divine Moments of Truth. It is so easy people have no idea. Most intense experience of a person’s life. But the truth one sees can last a lifetime and answer so many questions about our existence.

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DarksunDaFirst@reddit

I have to agree with you. It is one of those places where you need to have the day after planned out as a recovery day. The jet lag can be terrible.

I have never attempted a Divine Moment of Truth. Maybe this month I’ll put it on my schedule if I can find the correct Travel Agent to cut me a good price.

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PrettylightedUMphrek@reddit

Amen to that, I’ve fallen hard from trying to keep way too sober and then a relapse ends up being way worse. Now I’m able to feed the dragon every once in while with some mild extracurricular fun and know that it’s all in moderation. That’s worked way better for me. But I know not everyone can do that, I’m wicked luck in that regard.

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bitsy88@reddit

wicked lucky

Found the New Englander

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Kellzy1212@reddit

I was never scared by the commercials, always thought they were hilariously overdramatized.

What DID scare me from trying any hard drugs, was Requiem for a Dream. Basketball Diaries and Trainspotting, also. Requiem should be required watching for teenagers before graduation.

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AffectionateFig5864@reddit

I had an eating disorder in high school and, if anything, Requiem taught me that stealing my sister’s Ritalin might be a great way to suppress my appetite. Took me another 10 years until I wound up in residential treatment, but it worked.

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Kellzy1212@reddit

I can definitely understand that. I got all kinds of disordered eating habits from magazines, internet, etc…. Eat 800 calories a day to lose 5lbs a week. If i had easy access to those drugs, i probably would have tried that too. I just abused ephedra until they pulled it off the market. I’m happy for you that you made it through.

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GravyPainter@reddit

D.A.R.E. made me WANT to try it

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Kellzy1212@reddit

They lied. I’ve never had a stranger give me free drugs. Actually, second thought: maybe at a rave.

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FungiStudent@reddit

I got a few free heroin balloons back in the day. Ended up with a $200/day habit. First one is always free!

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Kellzy1212@reddit

That sounds like an awful deal. 😕

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Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit

I know a way to score free drugs. Medicaid/Medicare. Granted, the free drugs are prescription drugs, but technically they're free drugs

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violetstrainj@reddit

Yeah, those PSA’s scared me, too. I feel like we we completely bombarded with anti-drug propaganda.

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LordButtworth@reddit

Hello

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like_shae_buttah@reddit

I just lived in a bad neighborhood where drug use was rampant and didn’t want to wind up like them.

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ManbadFerrara@reddit

Honestly, yeah, kind of. But mainly so I could be this cool grizzled older guy lecturing young people like “hey, take it from me kids, I’ve been there, and you don’t wanna see what I’ve seen.”

Boy, was that ever a bad idea.

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ouijahead@reddit

I bet I’m the only one that remembers my school having these guys come talk to us about all this when we were in FIRST GRADE!!! . Jesus ! I only remember one detail. One guy saying he went crazy on a coke binge and took all his clothes off in public or something. I think the other two people were just talking about alcohol. They were trying to scare us straight young. … too young guys. Too young. I had no concept of what cocaine even was and probably did not for many years after that.

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NTDLS@reddit

My mom go so tired of me saying “I want to be a junkie when I grow up.” I was probably between 10 and 12 years old, looking back that must’ve been pretty damned embarrassing for her.

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ouijahead@reddit

I remember our bad kid in class getting pulled for saying that. We were only second or third grade. Looking back, he probably actually knew what that meant too.

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Username5735@reddit

Definitely did not want to be a junkie when I grew up. Still not a junkie so I succeeded. But your brain on drugs makes a delicious breakfast.

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ouijahead@reddit

A lot of the younger kids who were also watching television were terribly scared of frying eggs for awhile.

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karaloveskate@reddit

Wasn’t those commercials that kept me from drugs. It was movies depicting people on drugs that did it for me. Like the basketball diaries movie.

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Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit

I learned it by watching you!

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FancyThought7696@reddit (OP)

To this day I never have gotten those commercials. Like there’s this legion of parents smiling crack with their kids lol

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Zeke688@reddit

It was a weed campaign not crack

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

It was more than just weed. Pops had Junior’s whole little drug stash. Looked like some powder and pills in that little box

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

I dabbled a little bit

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Embarrassed_Key_4539@reddit

I used to do drugs… I still do, but I used to too

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MartyFreeze@reddit

Man, I STILL don't know what I want to be when I grow up!

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JPhrog@reddit

You and me both my friend

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bitsy88@reddit

I don't want a funeral but if I did, I'd want this picture on the little memorial pamphlets they give out.

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graveybrains@reddit

That's the best idea I've heard in a long time

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TheAmazingMaryJane@reddit

i never thought i'd be a junkie because heroin is so passé

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peekaboooobakeep@reddit

Won the D.A.R.E essay contest one year, getting high the next.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

Yes!! It seamed to romantic. Like a tragic love affair..

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cmgww@reddit

The kid running, but then it’s a cop who grabs him from behind…..”no one wants to be a junkie when they grow up”….

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

Trainspotting is scared straight on speed. I barely wanted to live after that movie, let alone do anything ever.

Great movie btw.

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Kellzy1212@reddit

Definitely never watch Requiem for a Dream, then. It’s much more devastating.

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Josephthebear@reddit

Assth 2 ASsth

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PhinePheasant@reddit

I was like “this is great, I’m going to do this.” And never watched the second half of “Blow.”

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

If it means Rachael Leigh Cook would be smacking around my huevos, I’d be willing to give it a shot.

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NoContextCarl@reddit

Heroin is so passé

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Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit

Nice!

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goat_penis_souffle@reddit

Dandy!

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Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit

“Mother fucker broke my fucking sitar.”

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Stimpinstein22@reddit

When I was younger, I would have a vasovagal reaction (look it up) from any shots/needles. I don’t think I would have been a good needle freak. I got past that through donating plasma in my late 30’s.

Have smoked cannabis for over half my life, though…

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