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You know, in the last few days, since Philip Seymour Hoffman died, there is a lot of hateful comments about addicts.
Some also praise his work, some are really sad the acting world has lost such a talent, such a genius, but some people are pulling the trigger really fast.
Idiot, junkie, loser, no pity...and on, and on, and on.
Why, though?
When you think of Jim Morrison, Janis, Hendrix...does the word junkie immediately come to mind? Or are you happy they left a legacy behind them that we still enjoy, some 40 odd years later?
When you think of Bon Scott from AC/DC or Led Zepp`s drummer John Bonham...do you think of them as worthless alcoholics who choked on their own puke, or do you still hum along the songs they left behind?
Yes, they were all addicts...but what exactly does that have to do with me, who am I to judge them? I didn`t know them, biographies or not, I still didn`t REALLY know these people.
Nor did or do I ever want to.
They were there. They gave me their heart and soul, they gave me everything they had, they sang and acted like there is no tomorrow. And for some of them there wasn`t. Sadly.
Now I should spit on them, call them names, think of them as losers?
I can`t. I won`t. They made my life happy.
Still do. Their art didn`t die. Never will.
Hell, Elvis was a "junkie", died on the can, for Pete`s sake.
Anybody thinks of him as the worthless junkie or do you still bow to The King?
We all have our demons, we all have a monkey on our back.
It might not be heroin, coke, or booze...but it might be cigarettes, obesity, or just being a spiteful a**hole who is loved by no one.
I sure know I have my own vices.
You are all here my friends, or so you say.
If you hear tomorrow I died from whatever it is...lets say a heart-attack because I was too lazy to exercise and couldn`t let that pizza rest until it`s all done...you gonna spit on me, too?
Or if I get drunk and die...you gonna call me "that loser alcoholic" ?
Don`t, people, please don`t be so harsh.
Remember the better moments, remember why you loved and love those people. Remember the positive.
And remember that we love each other...for not one of us knows when death might come knocking....
I do both. Of course I think of Morrison, Joplin, Hendrix and a host of others as "junkies." Sorry, I won't hide my head in the sand about this problem. But I also celebrate who they were artistically.When you think of Jim Morrison, Janis, Hendrix...does the word junkie immediately come to mind? Or are you happy they left a legacy behind them that we still enjoy, some 40 odd years later?
First of all.... don't get it twisted. Yes, i used the word Idiot but i never said anything about hating him and i certainly never used the word Loser. I'm a writer and an artist. I've lost friends to addiction and let me tell you, i mourned them no matter what the circumstances of their death. Do you know who i think the real losers are? The people that create this **** and then put it out there to turn an f'ing buck. They don't care if their **** kills anyone and will continue to process it even when it does. So please don't label me as a careless hater.
I've had juvenile diabetes since i was 7 years old..... i'm 46 now and not a day goes by that i don't wonder if i'll become just another statistic. Another person whose body has failed them and i lose my kidneys or my eyesight or a limb. Do you know what i'd give for a healthy vessel? Do you wonder why watching people ruin their bodies with this junk pains me? Well now you know.
I need to rethink coming here anymore... the bitching and judging is like a plague.
Speaking of weather Ms. Mod, are you'll buried in snow up there in Maine? We just keep getting hit with wave after wave of winter storms here, although I'm sure compared to Maine storms what we're experiencing probably seems minor in comparison but it doesn't take much to throw a monkey wrench in the works as far as getting around here. There isn't a flat surface in the area where I live, it's all hills here and there isn't very many salt trucks to go around. It's pretty much a demolition derby around here last couple of days...I've said this to several people that I've noticed a definite melting down of people and general crankiness that I think might be at least in part due to the severe winter weather those of us in the northern hemisphere have been experiencing. I love that example, Sunny, and maybe we all can take that to heart before we hit Post Reply with words we'll regret. Think twice, post once (or not at all).
Speaking of weather Ms. Mod, are you'll buried in snow up there in Maine? We just keep getting hit with wave after wave of winter storms here, although I'm sure compared to Maine storms what we're experiencing probably seems minor in comparison but it doesn't take much to throw a monkey wrench in the works as far as getting around here. There isn't a flat surface in the area where I live, it's all hills here and there isn't very many salt trucks to go around. It's pretty much a demolition derby around here last couple of days...
The high temp so far today is 17 here, bitterly cold last night, -5. My animals are NOT liking this weather at all....A lot of the storms hit farther south or go out on the coast and so even though I'm in central Maine, we don't get as much snow as those in the southern areas do. I'd guess that at my house we got somewhere around 8" yesterday. A lot of what we'd had earlier in the year had melted off so didn't add much to what was already on the ground. There have been other years when we'd have 2 or 3 feet this time of year. It has been very cold, though. The low spot in our yard registered -9 this morning but once the sun came out it hasn't been too bad (up to a balmy 18) as there isn't much of a wind. We still have idiots here who think they can drive as though it's any other day.
The high temp so far today is 17 here, bitterly cold last night, -5. My animals are NOT liking this weather at all....
Wow! Very insightful!I just read this article by Russell Brand. Powerful insight into addiction, & worth reading: Russell Brand on heroin, abstinence and addiction » The Spectator
And I will cry over you....because you are a fellow human, and because my heart will ache for your family who love you, and for the friends who know you and love you......those are the same reasons I cried for the family and friends of celebrities who passed so young and so sadly. I didn't cry for them because they are famous, but because they were real people who left loved ones behind who will hurt for a long time........addiction is never going away, I just tire of the fawning over the cult of celebrity, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanies the death of another celebrity...as I stated elsewhere, it's a tragic loss-but no more so on the human scale than the young fella across town that succumbed to the demons of his own addiction...we bring it on ourselves, and I won't cry over that...most of us who are addicted to something, didn't go in all doe-eyed and innocent...I know I didn't, and the cigarettes will kill me-I acknowledge it...and I have no interest in stopping, death-sticks or not...