Both alcohol and nicotine are considered "drugs", so if a person engages one or both of these practices, they're therefore a drug abuser, right?By definition it would surely seem as if this is the case.
And that means that I was a drug abuser for the better part of fifteen years.
Not only was I a drug abuser, but most of the people I know are also drug abusers.
This is an interesting point, because for the fifteen years that alcohol and cigarettes were a major part of my life, I didn't think of myself as a drug abuser.
That's how these two drugs work though.
They are both accepted in our society.
Alcohol is more accepted than cigarettes (nicotine) these days, but they're both viewed as "not that bad".
This is interesting, because these two drugs probably account for more deaths than any other drug on this planet.
But as long as huge companies make tons of money distributing these drugs, we'll all just ignore that ugly little fact.
As I said before, during the fifteen years I partook in these I drugs, I didn't think like this.
Once I stopped, I realized that one of the side effects of using these drugs is the fact that they completely distort your thinking.
It's ironic that I never quite grasped this fact, when it seems so blatantly obvious.
Of course they distort your thinking, that's why we all engage in such activities right?To distort our thinking or at least our "reality" for a short time? I think Lao Tzu said it best when he said," He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
"That's a very poignant observation, because when I drank it seemed that enough was never enough.
The same went for cigarettes.
I always wanted another one.
Enough was never enough.
And at the end of the day, isn't that what all of these companies want from us?To never really want there to be enough, so that we keep buying their products?Now that I'm no longer caught up in the vicious cycle, it sure seems like it.
The bottom line is that alcohol and nicotine are, without question, the drugs that are the most abused in our country.
And until you break the cycle of using these drugs, you won't fully understand this fact.
You can keep on thinking that heroine, cocaine, crack, and meth are the "real" drugs when in fact, nicotine and alcohol are just as bad and more than likely take the lives of more people and destroy more lives.
This ugly little fact is worth considering, at the very least, because at the end of the day, it the truth.