Posted by Jost on August 27, 2006, at 2:53:22
In reply to Feel like a loser because I am so cautious, posted by llrrrpp on August 27, 2006, at 0:23:45
It's kind of fun if you have off-beat friends who are introducing you to their off=beat friends, when you're at loose ends, and meeting new, somewhat hip people is the best use of time--
just to feel sort of "in" for a while-- imbedded in a more vivid world--
Never did it much myself-- too screwed up, too much of a loner, too sure I wouldn't be accepted.
It's more a social thing than a drug thing, really-- maybe it makes you see more intensely, dissolves certain social constraints or self-consciousness--
It isn't that different from not having drugs, if you're really into the mood-- except that it makes the mood more communcal, more external, and also harder to puncture, unless you do, in which case it's like falling through the looking glass.
It's better not to know and be ABD in your twenties, than know and have dropped out of college several times and not have a direction, and have shown a few flashes of engagement here and there.
Jost
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