People are fkn nuts. This dude obviously had issues. Only 20? Obviously holds some resentment and confused rage. Fucked up. I’m a former addict, I was “friends” with a lot of the homeless people where I did my thing. Most of them were all really good people who got abused, cheated, or just got dealt a bad hand in a system that forces you to step on others to get ahead and where people are kept poor and addicted because they are a requirement for people to be rich.
I do agree with you. I was never a drug abuser but was a pretty hardcore alcoholic firmly ensconced in the punk rock / extreme music scene. I had a friend who was engaged in pimping and more than a few associates who were involved in prostitution -I became someone who knew this scene like the back of my hand, which led to knowing people who met very untimely ends due to substance abuse and suicide from despair…
And I understand how, in the USA, this is compounded by the super hardcore narcotics that are out there, which I imagine can make your life unravel in a second.
I have a distant cousin who became a meth head sometime in the late 90s and disappeared off the face of the earth to us not that long after. RIP, I imagine.
And, likewise, a RIP to all the poor folks who died here and didn’t get that chance to turn their life around… and, even if they never turned their life around, it’s safe to assume they were decent enough people who simply got the millstone of addiction around their neck and could never get out from under it.
Yea once your in its hard to get out. The only reason I was able to is is cause I had people who loved me still, and I’m more privileged than some. I almost did not get out. Quite frankly I’m just lucky af, and glad I’m still alive.
You really did the community a service /s
People are fkn nuts. This dude obviously had issues. Only 20? Obviously holds some resentment and confused rage. Fucked up. I’m a former addict, I was “friends” with a lot of the homeless people where I did my thing. Most of them were all really good people who got abused, cheated, or just got dealt a bad hand in a system that forces you to step on others to get ahead and where people are kept poor and addicted because they are a requirement for people to be rich.
I do agree with you. I was never a drug abuser but was a pretty hardcore alcoholic firmly ensconced in the punk rock / extreme music scene. I had a friend who was engaged in pimping and more than a few associates who were involved in prostitution -I became someone who knew this scene like the back of my hand, which led to knowing people who met very untimely ends due to substance abuse and suicide from despair…
And I understand how, in the USA, this is compounded by the super hardcore narcotics that are out there, which I imagine can make your life unravel in a second.
I have a distant cousin who became a meth head sometime in the late 90s and disappeared off the face of the earth to us not that long after. RIP, I imagine.
And, likewise, a RIP to all the poor folks who died here and didn’t get that chance to turn their life around… and, even if they never turned their life around, it’s safe to assume they were decent enough people who simply got the millstone of addiction around their neck and could never get out from under it.
Yea once your in its hard to get out. The only reason I was able to is is cause I had people who loved me still, and I’m more privileged than some. I almost did not get out. Quite frankly I’m just lucky af, and glad I’m still alive.
Very glad to hear of your success - God bless ^^
Everyday is something yknow.