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There are definitely those sorts, sure...but there are also those that have dealt with issues they don't mind openly discussing. Drug issues, dependency issues, are something that is a strong reality for many, many people.
And as lame as it sounds, some of the "cooler" people I've met in my lifetime have dealt with these sort of issues at one point or another...most of the addicts I've dealt with have happened to be rather complex individuals. Drugs may start out as being fun, but even when one ventures into them as a means of fun it's still an escape from a world they are not completely comfortable in. This is likely why some of the better/most creative musicians in history have dealt with addiction at one point or another..."escape + create"...Iggy, Coltrane, Johnny Thunders, Miles, Kurt C., Richard Hell, Wayne Kramer, Dee Dee Ramone, Kristen Pfaff, likely even Robert Johnson.
Drugs, for better or worse, are cool. This isn't to say I think everyone (or even anyone) should partake...I don't. I feel as if this sort of thing is about personal choice...if ya need that sort of escape, or like Dee Dee said "want to be that sort of outlaw", just know that there are consequences to deal with...and the longer you partake, the more serious these consequences become.
I can appreciate an adventurous mindset toward anything. this is where my "dabblings" have came in. Alcohol, no doubt, is something I've abused the shit out of time and time again. Do I think this makes me "cool"...hell no, I don't. But, I DO believe it puts me in a situation to where I can actually understand, at least from my own point of view, what chemical dependency means. If there is one thing I know for a fact...addicts seldom won't take the advice of anyone that has never suffered there own addictions seriously. Maybe in that little way, they are cool.
To each there own.
Kids do shit sometimes...I don't know many people my age putting much emphasis into doin drugs as a means of being "cool", or "fitting in". Most my age that do drugs, wether occassionally or as full time addicts, have been doing so for ages. It just because a part of yr life...like pissing or sleeping or admiring the opposite sex. it begins to feel natural. For a while I didn't feel "normal" if i wasn't intoxicated. I needed it...my body had ways of telling me I needed it. When this begins to happen (and it's happened on a small number of occasions) I realized it was time to step back...at least for a while.
"Cool" is all relative anyways.
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