I got into more than a few arguments with friends of mine when I posted a status saying "I've lost more friends to marriage than I have to drugs."
Obviously that was meant to incite people, but sometimes that's just because I incite people when I really just want to converse with them.
(Believe it or not, people are much more likely to get into an argument with you than they are to strike up a conversation with you.)
What I was getting at was, yes, drugs are bad and you shouldn't do drugs BUT I have a particular aversion to people who get into relationships, marriages, have kids, etc, and fall off the face of the earth only to reemerge every so often to cast judgment down on the likes of people who drink or do drugs or carry on in such undomestic fashions.
I'd like to know why it's okay to become an ice-cold, mini-van driving asshole but not a drug addict?
To me, they're equally disappointing.
One's lost their soul to addictive influences, and one has freely given up their soul so that they can have barbecues on the Fourth of the July and talk about 401k's as if it's a subject that's actually interesting.
Where does one group get off judging the other?
And I'm only picking on the domestic crowd because drug addicts aren't known for being the most morally superior group of people (unless you count prescription drug users who happen to be running for political office).
I'm speaking now specifically of artists, when I talk about people who give up their talent so they can "settle down."
What does that even mean in that context? "Settling down" from what? Your passion? Doing what you love?
A person addicted to drugs may eventually get off the drugs, but someone who indulges in unbridled love and marriage may truly never create again.
Okay, I'm being hyperbolic, but seriously--
How many people do you know who are immensely talented but somehow can't find the time anymore to do what it is they love because they're too busy with ballet recitals and/or cleaning up baby vomit?
Not that there isn't anything wonderful or noble with all of that, but why don't we praise BALANCE more? If drug addicts had moderation, they wouldn't be addicts, and if the Tupperware crowd had balance, they could be passion-filled individuals who then instill that in their offspring.
Instead, we praise one and damn the other.
Well, I, for one, refuse to do that.
To me, wasted talent is wasted talent. If you're going to throw it away, I'm not going to split hairs about how you did it.
I'm just going to go ahead and label it a waste.
Obviously that was meant to incite people, but sometimes that's just because I incite people when I really just want to converse with them.
(Believe it or not, people are much more likely to get into an argument with you than they are to strike up a conversation with you.)
What I was getting at was, yes, drugs are bad and you shouldn't do drugs BUT I have a particular aversion to people who get into relationships, marriages, have kids, etc, and fall off the face of the earth only to reemerge every so often to cast judgment down on the likes of people who drink or do drugs or carry on in such undomestic fashions.
I'd like to know why it's okay to become an ice-cold, mini-van driving asshole but not a drug addict?
To me, they're equally disappointing.
One's lost their soul to addictive influences, and one has freely given up their soul so that they can have barbecues on the Fourth of the July and talk about 401k's as if it's a subject that's actually interesting.
Where does one group get off judging the other?
And I'm only picking on the domestic crowd because drug addicts aren't known for being the most morally superior group of people (unless you count prescription drug users who happen to be running for political office).
I'm speaking now specifically of artists, when I talk about people who give up their talent so they can "settle down."
What does that even mean in that context? "Settling down" from what? Your passion? Doing what you love?
A person addicted to drugs may eventually get off the drugs, but someone who indulges in unbridled love and marriage may truly never create again.
Okay, I'm being hyperbolic, but seriously--
How many people do you know who are immensely talented but somehow can't find the time anymore to do what it is they love because they're too busy with ballet recitals and/or cleaning up baby vomit?
Not that there isn't anything wonderful or noble with all of that, but why don't we praise BALANCE more? If drug addicts had moderation, they wouldn't be addicts, and if the Tupperware crowd had balance, they could be passion-filled individuals who then instill that in their offspring.
Instead, we praise one and damn the other.
Well, I, for one, refuse to do that.
To me, wasted talent is wasted talent. If you're going to throw it away, I'm not going to split hairs about how you did it.
I'm just going to go ahead and label it a waste.
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